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Pamyat and the Jewish Menace: Remembrance of Things Past

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John D. Klier
John D. Klier*
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University College, London
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For veterans of the Russian winter, the term “thaw” will ever remain an appropriate metaphor for the waning of periods of control and repression. Unfortunately, many Soviet political thaws have given way quickly to resurgent winters. Perhaps most significant in the current Soviet thaw, the policies of glasnost and perestroika associated with Mikhail Gorbachev, has been the extent to which Soviet society has been invited to participate in it. Society, in its turn, has responded with the creation of numerous grassroots, unofficial social-action groups (samodeiatelnye obshchestvennye organizatsii).

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 19 , Issue 2: Special Issue - Pamyat , Fall 1991 , pp. 214 - 227
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Copyright © 1991 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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Notes

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