New Union Treaty

Involvement of the Soviet republics, Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, and Autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union in the New Union Treaty.
  Supported the confederation (both before and after the August coup).
  Supported the confederation, but moved towards independence after the August coup.
  Boycotted the confederation, demanding full independence.

The New Union Treaty (Russian: Новый союзный договор, romanized: Novyy soyuznyy dogovor) was a draft treaty that would have replaced the 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to salvage and reform the USSR. A ceremony of the Russian SFSR signing the treaty was scheduled for 20 August 1991 but was prevented by the August Coup a day earlier.[1]

The preparation of this treaty was known as the Novo-Ogaryovo process (новоогаревский процесс), named after Novo-Ogaryovo, a governmental estate where the work on the document was carried out and where Soviet President and CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev talked with leaders of Union republics.[2]

  1. ^ "Union of Sovereign States". Encyclopedia.com. 28 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Mikhail Gorbachev". Biography. 28 November 2021.