Nyeformaly: Civil Society in the USSR. |
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Page 110 - Chairman of the Council of Ministers, and the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet were replaced.
Page 68 - Front, (Moskovskiy narodniy front) , founded in the summer of 1988, apparently sought to unite all the Popular Fronts of the USSR under its aegis, but failed, given the long-standing provincial distrust of movements run from Moscow.
Page 46 - Booklet on the Moscow Group to Establish Trust Between the USSR and the USA and Its Affiliates.
Page 16 - These groups advocate measures to put legal limits on the power of the state and they promote civil rights for everyone.
Page 59 - Revolution, the building of a classless society and the withering away of the state through the development of social self -management to displace administrative bureaucratic structure.
Page 19 - December 1987, 11 working groups tackled a wide range of humanitarian problems and human rights issues: international trust and disarmament; social and economic rights; nationalities problems; freedom of religion; freedom of speech; human contacts and emigration; humanitarian aspects of ecological problems; the rights of the disabled and other socially-dependent groups; judicial guarantees of human rights and citizens...
Page 33 - Bulletin of the Council of Relatives of Evangelical Christian Baptist Prisoners and...
Page 62 - June 1988, and theses for the electoral campaign for the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, which began in December 1988. On November 20, 1988, Democratic Perestroika held a rally attended by 500 people on the rehabilitation of political prisoners of the "stagnation...
Page 64 - Soviet director of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity.
Page 124 - Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia Formed," Radio Liberty Research Bulletin.
References to this book
Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment Alfred B. Evans,Laura A. Henry,Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom Limited preview - 2006 |