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The publication of the Pravda article on April 5 was a considerable victory for anti-Stalinism and for glasnost’ (though sceptical Soviet citizens grumbled that the near-unanimity with which the article was greeted in public showed that the old methods were being continued for new purposes).
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Izvestiya, June 14, 1988 (article by Yu. Feofanov).
See T. H. Rigby, Lenin’s Government: Sovnarkom, 1917–1922, passim, and
E. A. Rees, State Control in Soviet Russia: the Rise and Fall of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate, 1920–34 (London, 1987), chs 1–2.
See Literaturnaya gazeta, July 13, 1988 (O. Suleimenov), and
Pravda, August 5, 1988 (D. Granin). The editor of Pravda, a rather conservative newspaper, met with almost equal hostility. Many delegates evidently believed strongly that the press was too eager to criticise them and was unreliable.
Literaturnaya gazeta, September 7, 1988 (V. Amlinskii).
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Davies, R.W. (1989). The Politburo and Soviet History: the XIX Party Conference and After. In: Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution. Studies in Soviet and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20060-3_11
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