CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Pavlova, Margarita Aleksandrovna |
|---|---|
| Title | Political in Form, Cultural in Content: Civic Activism and Historic Preservation in Leningrad during Perestroika |
| Summary | This thesis aims to reveal the emergence, operation, and transformation of the grass-roots groups involved in historic preservation during Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of glasnost and perestroika in Leningrad. It attempts to locate the crystallization of the independent groups within a broader framework of late Soviet Leningrad and re-evaluate the ideologically loaded concept of neformaly which was labeled by Soviet journalists and scholars to the grass-roots groups formed outside of the official institutions. In doing so, it attempts to explore under which circumstances were these civic associations created during perestroika and how did they operate and evolve. By analyzing various types of primary sources that reveal different layers of the self-organizational practices in late Soviet Leningrad, this thesis indicates the complexities faced by the grass-roots initiatives of historic preservationists. These findings not only revise the existing historiography but also continue an ongoing debate on the paradoxes and ambiguities of late Soviet society. |
| Supervisor | Siefert, Marsha |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/pavlova_margarita.pdf |
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