1990
Subtitle: Russians remember a turning point
By: edited by Irina Prokhorova ; abridged and translated from the Russian by Arch Tait ; with a foreword by Bridget Kendall
Publisher: MacLehose
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 521
ISBN-13: 9780857052001
Subjects: Nineteen ninety, A.D.; Civilization; History
Other titles: Nineteen ninety
Work titles: 1990-ĭ. English
Description: "Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political power. This fascinating collection of documentary evidence crystalises the aspirations of the Russian people in the days before Communism finally fell. It charts - among many other social developments - the appearance of new political parties and independent trade unions, the rapid evolution of mass media, the emergence of a new class of entrepreneurs, a new openness about sex and pornography and a sudden craze for hot-air ballooning, banned under the Communist regime. 1990 is a reminder of the confusion and aspirations of the year before Communism finally collapsed in Russia, and a tantalising glimpse of the paths that may have been taken if Yeltsin's coup had not forced the issue in 1991."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Late 1989-a timeline: "If Lenin were alive today, he would know what to do" / Aleksey Yurchak; title: January: my diary for January, 1990 / Mark Kharitonov; title: February-the year of Utopias realized: schools, teachers, and educational reformers in 1990 / Tamara Eydelman; title: March-the irrational in society: diagnoses of 1990 / Pavel Romanov and Yelena Yarksaya-Smirnova; title: April: the shock of irrevocability / Hasan Guseynov; title: May-ends and means: initial ideas, institutions that win / Vitaliy Yelizarov; title: June-the beginning of the end: notes of an eyewitness, edited by an historian, being the same person / Marietta Chudakova; title: July.  Ideological construction of a party spectrum: the false start of 1990 / Vadim Goncharov ;  Free flight: the rebirth of Soviet aeronautics / Svetlana Koroleva ; Trade unions in 1990: an involved obersver's view / Sergej Khramov; title: August-the funeral of food, or, the Soviet shopping basket in 1990 / Sergey Karnaukhov; title: September: the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990 / Nikolai Mitrokhin; title: October.  An interview with Vladimir Pozner ; Frozen experiences, or, local television reporting in 1990 / Pavel Pavlov; title: November-the miners in 1989-90: a venture into national politics / Sergey Turkin; title: December-history as economics, or, a journey from 1921 to 1906 via 1990 / Olesya Kirchik.