WI: New Union Treaty

This has probably been done to death, but what if Gorbachev was able to ratify the New Union Treaty and make the USSR into a social democratic-ish (Russia gonna Russia) state?
 
This has probably been done to death, but what if Gorbachev was able to ratify the New Union Treaty and make the USSR into a social democratic-ish (Russia gonna Russia) state?

Adam Ulam wrote in Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections, "One must agree with the hapless [August] conspirators on one thing: there was no earthly chance that the proposed new constitution could hold the country together. It was at once vague and too specific, vague in delineating the authority of the center, but very specific in granting constituent units powers amounting to virtual independence." https://books.google.com/books?id=wgtCaPUPIlwC&pg=PA354
 
"One must agree with the hapless [August] conspirators on one thing: there was no earthly chance that the proposed new constitution could hold the country together. It was at once vague and too specific, vague in delineating the authority of the center, but very specific in granting constituent units powers amounting to virtual independence."
Could it centralize in the 1990s ?
 
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