The situation changed after the Soviet Union collapsed. In 1992, Russian historian published his paper in which he completely rejected the Yarushevich-Kuznetsov concept.Кром М. М. Православные князья в Великом княжестве Литовском в начале XVI века: (К вопросу о социальной базе восстания Глинских) // Отечественная история. — 1992. — № 4. Krom considered the Rebellion a shady enterprise,Кром М. М. «Человек на всякий час» : Авантюрная карьера князя Михаила Глинского // Родина : журнал. — 1996. — № 5. — С. 45—49. caused by the desire of Mikhail and his brothers to regain their lost position. He concluded that the majority of Orthodox princes were satisfied with the situation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and they did not strive to separate.Кром М. М. Меж Русью и Литвой… — С. 151—152. Mikhail Krom noted that in the early sources there are no ethnic or religious connotations for the events. These connotations appear only in the writings of the late 1560s-1590s, when ethnic and interconfessional differences in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania sharply worsened and the past was reinterpreted in the form of Orthodoxy-Catholicism confrontation.
