Perestroika From Below: Social Movements In The Soviet Union

✍ Scribed by Judith Sedaitis (editor), Jim Butterfield (editor)

Publisher: Westview Press
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 236
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book provides a view of grass-roots movements that are testing the waters of broadened political participation in the USSR today. Contributors explore the emergence and development under perestroika of unofficial labour unions, women's groups and environmentalists.

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