| Popis: |
In an important break with the traditional authoritarian Soviet political culture, Gorbachev and Yakovlev, building on policy initiatives from the new General Secretary’s first year in office, invited public opinion to play a role in influencing policy-making. The resultant change in Soviet life was to be nowhere more evident than in the realm of literature. As Gorbachev told a group of writers prior to the 1986 Writers’ Congress: We do not have an opposition. How then can we monitor ourselves? Only through criticism and self-criticism. And most important, through glasnost’… The Central Committee needs support. You cannot imagine how much we need the support of a detachment like the writers.1 |
