{Dissidents [continued]}[7th April 1991]

[Redbook9:43-44][19910407:1231e]{Dissidents [continued]}[7th April 1991]

19910407.1231 (Sun[day])

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‘Ludmilla Alexe[ye]va, a leading member of the Soviet civil rights movement which flourished for a decade beginning in the late 1960s,* was, like Sinyarsky, forced into emigration.... A student of history at Moscow University just after the war,** she describes recently demobilised “frontoviki” who came to dominate the university, peasant boys who had held Party posts in the army and now, with a taste of power under their belts, came to the city to stay. Without intellectual interests,*** incapable of critical thinking, they were training to become bosses, and accusing fellow-students of lapses in vigilance or loyalty was one way to success. These were the “new Soviet men” of her generation. But the system that produced them produced an alternative, too: while mothers were out serving the cause, **** “a legion of grandmothers” were bringing up their children, instilling traditional values which would surface in response to Kruschev’s thaw and fuel what came to be called dissidence.

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*64G~1968

64R~1976

(64C1984)

**64U~1944

(64A~1952)

***U~-A~

****G~-side

#[– ibid (T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] 4589, 19910315:5, ‘Homo Sovieticus: Utopia & reality in Russian experience’, D. Fanger, Professor of Slavic and Comparative History at Harvard University): 5-6]

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