... of Laws” Union Treaty Novo‐Ogarevo Process Shakhnazarov Georgii autonomous republics ASSR nullification August 1991 Putsch Belezhovskaia Forest Minsk Agreement Minsk Agreement economic reform federalism glasnost Mikhail Gorbachev legal reform Leninism nationalities Novo‐Ogarevo Process...

... with the conservative forces in the spring of 1991 and his launch of the Novo‐Ogarevo process, designed to preserve the Union on the basis of a pacted settlement. The chapter concludes with discussion of the extremely damaging effects of the August coup on Mikhail Gorbachev's authority and on his prospects...