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Ukrainian independence referendum

The vote of 1 December 1991 in which Ukrainians approved independence from the Soviet Union.

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Dates
1 Dec 1991
Place
Ukraine
Also known as
1991 Ukrainian independence referendum

On 1 December 1991 voters in Ukraine overwhelmingly approved independence and elected Leonid Kravchuk president. A week later he signed the Belovezha Accords. According to the historian Serhii Plokhy, the vote doomed Gorbachev’s plans for a renewed union.

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  1. Interviews: Serhii Plokhii, Toynbee Prize Foundation, 28 Sep 2014. Scholarship & press
    Already weakened by pressure from Russian President Boris Yeltsin and an abortive coup, Gorbachëv and his visions for a revitalized Soviet confederation were doomed by the decisive results of a December 1991 Ukrainian referendum in favor of independence.
    the overwhelming December 1 turnout in favor of total Ukrainian independence nixed all hopes for both a revived Soviet Union as well a Slavic Union.
  2. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Lionel Gelber Prize), Lionel Gelber Prize, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Scholarship & press
    Plokhy presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union’s final months and argues that the key to the Soviet collapse was the inability of the two largest Soviet republics, Russia and Ukraine, to agree on the continuing existence of a unified state.
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