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Soviet Society Today

Soviet Society Today

Michael Rywkin

First published 1989 by M.E.Sharpe,Inc.

Published 2016 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informabusiness

Copyright 1989 by Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notices

No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use of operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein.

Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safely of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Design by Sonja Godfried.

On the title page: The sign reads Glory to the Great Soviet People. In the foreground is a monument to Yuri Dolgorukii, first prince of Moscow (twelfth century). Photograph by the author.

Voices are translated by the author or excerpted from the translation journals Soviet Law and Government and Soviet Sociology, published by M. E. Sharpe, Inc. by arrangement with VAAP, the Soviet copyright agency.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rywkin, Michael.

Soviet society today / by Michael Rywkin.

p. cm.

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-87332-444-7 : ISBN 0-87332-445-5 (pbk.) :

1. Soviet UnionSocial conditions1970- 2. Soviet Union- Politics and government1982- I. Title.

HN523.5.R98 1989

306'.0947dc19 89-4192

CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-87332-444-1 (hbk)

To the memory of my father-my first teacher about Soviet society

Contents

1861	Abolition of serfdom
1904-05	Russo-Japanese War
1905	First Russian Revolution
1906-10	Stolypin reforms in agriculture
1914-18	World War I
1917	February (March) Revolution
October (November) Revolution
Secret police force (Cheka) established
1918-20	Civil War (Red Army vs. White Armies)
1918-26	Basmachi revolt in Central Asia
1921-27	Lenins New Economic Policy
1924	Death of Lenin
1924	First federal Constitution of the USSR
1926-29	Stalin defeats rivals, consolidates power
1928	Beginning of First Five-year Plan
Collectivization of agriculture begins
1929	Mass deportation of kulaks begins
1932	Internal passport system reintroduced
1933	Beginning of Second Five-year Plan
1933-38	Mass purges and deportations
1934	Socialist realism made official doctrine
1935	Stakhanovite movement begins
1936	Stalin Constitution
1939	Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Partition of Poland
Annexation of Bessarabia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1939-40	Russo-Finnish War
1941	Germany invades USSR
1944	Deportation of punished nationalities
1945	Allied victory over Germany and Japan
1946	Beginning of Cold War
1949-1950	Collectivization of agriculture in annexed territories
1950	Korean War begins
1952	The doctors plot
1953	Death of Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev becomes Party First Secretary
1956	Khrushchevs secret speech denouncing Stalin
1957	Soviet Sputnik launched
1960	Sino-Soviet break
1964	Leonid Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev
1974	Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from the USSR
1977	Brezhnev Constitution
1979	High point of Jewish and German emigration
1979	Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
1980	Andrei Sakharov exiled to Gorky
1982	Death of Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary
1985	Beginning of perestroika campaign
1985-88	Rehabilitation of victims of Stalinism Anti-alcohol campaign
1986	April nuclear plant disaster at Chernobyl
1986	December riots in Alma-Alta
1987-89	Armenian-Azerbaijani clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh Demands for greater autonomy in Baltic republics Introduction of family contracts in agriculture Spread of co-operative movement
1988	Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan begins December earthquake in Soviet Armenia
1989	Election of Congress of Peoples Deputies Congress elects Gorbachev president

The material for this book comes from years of study of Soviet reality through research, teaching, professional contacts, travel, and personal experience.

In 1984, and again in 1987, I was given the opportunity to travel to the USSR under the sponsorship of IREX, the International Research and Exchanges Board. The research for this book was supported in part by a grant from IREX, with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the United States Information Agency. None of these organizations is responsible for the views expressed here.

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