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Originally Posted by ikalugin
Gorbachev was overthrown during the dissolution of the USSR, which was a De jure a separatist process (though Russia with Yeltsin did participate in said process).
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According to that article this took place after the suggestion of an economic deal between Russia and the US failed to take place. Not suggesting that it was a direct result but it certainly can't have helped.
I wonder if Gorbachev had managed to get a deal with the US in a manner similar to that described in that article whether he would have managed to cling on to power a bit longer and ride through a more structured dissolution of the USSR. That being said, Yeltsin would still have worked to undermine him, but he might have been able to have pacified the hardliners a little with some economic relief...although it's always hard to tell what the hardliners would go for, they were particularly in denial in those last days of the USSR.
