World Politics, Volume 58, Number 2, January 2006, pp. 276-310
(Article)
In the early 1990s Russia stood at the precipice of state failure.
Demands
for autonomy radiated from Russia’s ethnic republics,
threatening
to split the federation along ethnic lines as had happened to
the
Soviet Union before it. Russia’s republics had begun
appropriating
power from Moscow during the late Soviet era. With the collapse
of
the USSR, several accelerated their quest, asserting control over
natural
resources, defying federal laws, and introducing republican
presidencies.
The decisions some republics made to boycott federal elections
and stop paying federal taxes lent momentum to a process that
seemed
likely to end in Russia’s disintegration.
Giuliano E. Secessionism from the Bottom Up Democratization, Nationalism, and Local Accountability in the Russian Transition
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