Parade of Sovereignties
주권 행진
The process by which Soviet republics and autonomous units adopted declarations of state sovereignty from 1988 to 1991. Estonia issued the first declaration in November 1988; by 1990, all 15 union republics had adopted one, joined by autonomous republics within the RSFSR. Each declaration asserted the priority of republican law over union law, triggering a 'War of Laws' between the center and the republics that dismantled the legal and political unity of the USSR and paved the road to dissolution.
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- Wikipedia (EN) core factual frame: sequence of declarations, Estonian first (16 Nov 1988), War of Laws mechanism, term coined by RSFSR deputy Pyotr Zerin in December 1990
- Wikipedia (RU) Russian-language article with full chronology of union-republic and autonomous-unit declarations, term authorship, and the collapse of the union legal space
- soviethistory.msu.edu full English text of the Estonian SSR Supreme Soviet's landmark sovereignty declaration of 16 November 1988, the first in the parade
- link.springer.com Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2022): scholarly analysis connecting indigenization of republican elites to the parade of sovereignties as a driver of Soviet disintegration