The Commonwealth of Independent States as a Way to a "Civilized Divorce"

Authors

  • Vladimir Germanovich Burkov Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет , St. Petersburg State University Автор
  • Konstantin Evgenyevich Mescheryakov Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет , St. Petersburg State University Автор
  • Ruslan Gabdrashitovich Shamgunov Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет , St. Petersburg State University Автор

Keywords:

Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, содружество Независимых Государств, российская Федерация, распад СССР, образование СНГ, интеграция, постсоветское пространство, перестройка, М. С. Горбачев, Б. Н. Ельцин, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Commonwealth of Independent States, Russian Federation, collapse of the USSR, establishment of the CIS, integration, post-Soviet space, perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin

Abstract

The article describes the events, which took place in the USSR in its last years. It discovers the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. It explains why the CIS did not grow in a new Union state and did become nothing more than a mechanism for a “civilized divorce” of the former Soviet republics.

Published

2016-01-15

Issue

No. 1 (2016)

Section

Articles