Events of August ’91 as an Expression of Political Disobedience in the Process of Shaping Civil Conduct
Journal: Kultura i Edukacja
Year: 2016

Civil disobedience is the attitude which in the 20th century proved to be the only effective form of resistance to authoritarian regimes. So it was in the case of the events of August '91 when the Soviet society objected to the activities of the State Committee on the State of Emergency. It would not have been possible without the reform programme known as perestroika initiated by the last USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Thanks to perestroika and the accompanying glasnost -transparency of sociopo