Dedovshchina and the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers under Gorbachev
This article provides an historical account of the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers’ role in breaking the taboo on dedovshchina in the Soviet military in the late 1980s. I argue that soldiers’ mothers’ activism on this issue played a crucial role in opening up the military to public scrutiny and in in...
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| Language: | deu |
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Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Sociétés et les Institutions Post-Soviétiques
2004-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/243 |