As a leading member of the Moscow Popular Front, Kagarlitsky and
his associates sought to extend the debate and agitation throughout
society as a whole. From the striking coalfields if Siberia and the
human chain protests of the Baltic republics to the rallies of the
fascist Pamyat and the burgeoning of a Soviet environmental
movement, Kagarlitsky listens to and analyses a nation in turmoil.
Describing the elections of Spring 1989, Kagarlitsky assesses
candidates like Boris Yeltsin, to whom the Popular Front lent
critical support. He outlines the way in which the ensuing People's
Congress fed a mounting frustration at the gap between promised and
actual change. And he points to the dangers of an emerging 'market
Stalinism' which could exacerbate social inequity without
delivering political freedom. Fall 1989 saw governments throughout
Eastern Europe tumble before mass mobilizations of peoples no
longer afraid of Soviet intervention. The biggest transformation in
global politics since 1945 flowed directly from the opening of
discussion between the caucuses of the Soviet Communist Party and
the masses it claimed to represent, a debate which is described in
these pages with a vividness and insight available only to a
participant. Kagarlitsky's testament concludes with a stark account
of the escalating difficulties and conflicts facing the government
in the early months of 1990 events signalling, in the author's
view, the demise of perestroika itself.
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