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Informal Activity and the Soviet Working Class
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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I will be focusing on unofficial or informal social-political activities that Soviet workers have been engaged in over the course of the last several years and, particularly, over the course of the last several months. But first, as a way of introducing that discussion of informal or unofficial activity, I would like to step back to 1987 and look at attempts on the part of the Gorbachev regime to preempt unofficial activity on the part of workers, both in order to be better able to control those activities and to use them for Gorbachev's own political purposes. From this discussion I would make the case that the failure of those attempts has lead more recently to the growth of unofficial activity among Soviet workers.
- Type
- Part II: Towards a Civil Society?
- Information
- Nationalities Papers , Volume 18 , Issue 2: Special Issue - A Symposium on Social Movements in the USSR , Fall 1990 , pp. 42 - 49
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1990 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc.