Title: Victims and agents: gender in post-Soviet states
Abstract: The past decade has seen tumultuous change. The Soviet empire in Eastern Europe came to an end after ‘revolutions’ in 1989, themselves the result of Gorbachev's encouragement of economic and political reforms in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic and Romania. Germany was reunified, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) disintegrated and a shaky Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was born. The process of perestroika instigated ‘from above’ by Mikhail Gorbachev after he became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1985 was far-reaching for Soviet citizens, for East Europeans and for the world. Gorbachev may not have intended many of its most far-reaching consequences, but once confronted by them he was forced by the weight of historical demands ‘from below’ to concede them.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-07-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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