Informal Political Movement in Sverdlovsk 1986–1990
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The article is devoted to the evolution of informal political organizations in Sverdlovsk from the end of 1986 until the elections to the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR in March 1990 on the eve of the abolition of Article 6 of the USSR Constitution. The work analyzes the materials of the former party archive (now the Center for Documentation of Public Organizations of the Sverdlovsk Region): sources of the propaganda and agitation department of the regional committee and the ideological department of the city committee, documents of the collection «Socio-political situation in the Sverdlovsk region in 1985-1998». The article examines the activities of informals, which were aimed at supporting perestroika. The actions of these organizations, created outside party control, played a key role in the emergence of street discussions and mobilization of citizens around new political leaders and representatives of the reformist sector of the party.

Montelongo Machado E. C. Informal Political Movement in Sverdlovsk 1986-1990 // HISTORY AND MODERN PERSPECTIVES. 2025. Vol. 7. № 1. P. 81-88. (in Russ.) DOI: 10.33693/2658-4654-2025-7-1-81-88. EDN: VRDWBR

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Sverdlovsk, informal organizations, democratization, club, multiparty system, CPSU..