History of the Soviet Union since 1917
December 4, 2002
Perestroika and the Ambiguities of Socialism, Part II
I. Glasnost (openness, publicity, sunshine)
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Election poster for Boris Yeltsin, running for the at-large seat to the Congress of People's Deputies in the Moscow region, March 1989
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First-ever contested election in the USSR:
Moscow polling place, March 1989 (ul. Vavilova) |
- The information age meets the closed society
- Signs of glasnost
- literary works and cinema
- "Repentence" (Abuladze)
- Children of the Arbat (Rybakov)
- many others
- Public information
- social problems
- news reporting
- competing organs of the press
- history and the past
- Public opinion
- Party line is for pluralism
- conservative opposition to party line
II. Democratization
- Gorbachev's motives
- Democratizing the one party
- Reviving the congress of people's deputies, March 1989
- Formation of political blocs and parties
III. Gorbachev in the court of world opinion
- hero in the west
- villain to the Soviet people
Music: DDT, "Poet," Ia Poluchil etu rol' (Kvadro-Disk)
