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gorby became inreasingly frustrated with his failure to change whose minds?
conservative party members
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reform failure left many reformers convinced the solution was to move towards wht?
pluralism
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what is pluralism?
political system with more than one political party in elections
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pluralism opened multi-party system where communists would have to do what?
earn thier right to govern
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IMPACT ON COMMUNIST PARTY UNITY
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- increasing party divisions
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gorby's failure to bring substantial reform to party alienated which two groups?
'liberals' and 'conservatives'
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increasing divisions undermined who's authority?
groby
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who struggled to do what?
find common ground
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- alienating reformers
dgdgd
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who was one of the more radical reformers?
yeltsin
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for that group there was increasing realisation of what?
party woudlnt carry throughreforms
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disagreements between gorby and yeltsin came to a head t what event?
plenum of the central committee
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when?
october '87
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yeltsin openly attacked groby's approach to reform as being?
too slow
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what happened to him?
sacked as party first secretary in moscow
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and removed from?
politburo
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when?
february '88
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- alienating conservatives
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when did hard-line communists attempt to strike back + gain some control?
march '88
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while gorby was where?
on diplomatic trip to yugoslavia
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what letter was published in newspaper?
sovetskaya russia
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by unnown communist?
nina andreeva
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letter complained about constant undermining of whose work?
stalin
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and attacked glasnost for what?
demoralising impact
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who was acting leader in gorby's absence?
ligachev
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took initiative and used letter as opportunity to do what?
attack reform pace
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why was support for this especially worrying for gorby?
not only stalin broner folks but also ppl of his own appts like chebrikov
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- development of factions
gdgd
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arguemtns between libs and cons occured where?
in politburo / central committee
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impact of democratisation was to open up both sides to?
possibility of both sides appealing to wider public for support
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were party factiosn allowed?
no
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informal groups started to emerge during elections for?
congress of people's deputies
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reformers like yeltsin formed?
inter-regional group
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and conservatives formed?
soyuz
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for those worried about upholding what?
territorial integrity of ussr
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when congress met these groups formed unofficial opposition to hwat?
gov
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- abolition of article 6
dgdgd
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if party couldn't be reformed then what was the only logical conclusion?
end party's political monopoly
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article 6 of constitution sated communist party held position of?
'leading and guiding force of society and the nucleus of its political system'
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this article enshrined what?
the one-party astate
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and therfore became target for critics that wished to do what?
push for real democracy
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how did conservatives within party view article?
non-negotiable
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when did groby finally repeal it?
march '90
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why?
growing liberal opp and continued resisance
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this ended party's monopoly and now allowed what?
other patries to contest electons
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by end of what year were commies powerless?
'90
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what had local soviet elections seen?
communists defeated cross-country
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in leningrad opposition secured what % seats?
60%
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non-russian republic support for nationalist groups grw especially wher?
baltic states
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yeltslin scored victory for his newly formed group?
democratic platform
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in elections for what?
russian congress of people's deputies
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in what month did he resign from party?
june
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political vacuum in central gov filled @ least temporarily by election of?
gorbachev
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to position of?
president of ussr
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by?
congress of people's deputies
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in theory presidential rule replaced?
party ryle
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in practice where had power shifted?
from centre to regions
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