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“Quiet” popular revolution against the party-state apparatus |
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Many high-ranking party functionaries were rejected at the ballot
box |
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Voters tended to support “persecuted” candidates, such as Boris
Yeltsin |
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New forms of collective action: unsanctioned mass rallies and
workers’ strikes |
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First parliamentary opposition in Soviet history: “Interregional
Group of Deputies,” co-chaired by Boris Yeltsin and Andrei Sakharov |
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Perestroika supporters split into two rival camps: moderates (led by
Gorbachev) and radicals (led by Yeltsin) |
