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Soviet democracy movements

  • Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union)Mikhail Gorbachev stood before the Soviet people in January 1987 and announced a new direction for his country. He introduced the word demokratizatsiya as a…
  • Soviet dissidentsIn August 1969, the Initiating Group for Defense of Civil Rights in the USSR sent a formal appeal to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights.