Nina Andreyeva

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Nina Alexandrovna Andreyeva
Нина Александровна Андреева
Nina Andreyeva, 1 May 1995
General Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks[1]
In office
8 November 1991 – 24 July 2020
Personal details
Born12 October 1938
St. Petersburg, Russia
Political partyAll-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1991–2020)
Other political
affiliations		Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1966–1991)

Nina Alexandrovna Andreyeva (

General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his closest supporters for not being true communists. In the rebuke published in the official party newspaper Pravda the essay was called The Manifesto of Anti-Perestroika Forces.[3][4]

Career in chemistry

She was born in

Leningrad Technological Institute. She joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) around 1966.[5]

I Cannot Forsake My Principles

Andreyeva's essay I Cannot Forsake My Principles (Не могу поступаться принципами; variously translated in English commentary) was published in the newspaper

Yegor Ligachev.[6] She was contemptuous of Perestroika and defended the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.[7] Of the Great Purges, "they are being blown out of proportion" she wrote.[8]

Giulietto Chiesa, then Moscow correspondent of the Italian Communist newspaper L'Unità, found Andreyeva's original letter and discovered that it had been rewritten, only 5 pages of her 18-page typescript were published, much of the rest being thought too extreme. In the originally unpublished portions, Andreyeva commented that Stalin's critics wrote "in the language of Goebbels" and referred to "nations of little importance, like the Crimean Tartars and Zionist Jews."[6]

Party officials critical of the reforms welcomed the published essay. Ligachev told the official news agency TASS to send the Andreyeva letter to local newspapers throughout the Soviet Union to publish it.[9] It was much reprinted in the Soviet Union and East Germany, but it received no critical response in the media. The Leningrad party issued a television documentary apparently showing mass support in the city for the Andreyeva letter.[10][11]

Not until after Gorbachev had returned from abroad, and following a two-day meeting of the politburo on March 24–25 to discuss the Andreyeva letter, did a response appear in Pravda on 5 April 1988.[6][12][13] The Pravda article described the letter as containing "nostalgia, backward-looking patriotism," the work of "blind, die-hard, undoubting dogmatists."[8] Gorbachev stated that there were mixed reactions to the article within the politburo, with members such as Vorotnikov and Ligachev characterizing the article as an understandable reaction to the negative view of the Soviet past.[14] Gorbachev described it as a direct attack "against perestroika."[15]

Under the reforms, she told David Remnick of The Washington Post in 1989 that under Stalin "the country built socialism for 30 years" and stated: "Our media are lying about Stalin now. They are blackening our history." On then current conditions, she told him: "The political structure of an anti-socialist movement is taking place in the form of democratic unions and popular fronts."[8] She said of Leningrad television: "they'll show an artist, a painter, who is supposedly a representative of Russian art. But excuse me, he is not a Russian. He is a Jew." She added: "You can say Russian, Ukrainian, why not Jew? Does it diminish the person? Why hide him behind some other nationality. Jew and Zionist mean different things, but all Zionists are Jews." In the Sovetskaya Rossiya letter, she attacked "cosmopolitan" conspirators.[8]

For his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1993), Remnick drew on his contact with Andreyeva.[16]

Subsequent career

By July 1990, she was heading an organization called Yedinstvo (Unity) which aimed to return the country to the Bolshevik principles of

Lenin and was planning to leave the CPSU.[17] The New York Times described the group in August 1991 as "a haven for many hard-line Communists".[18]

Andreyeva later played a leadership role in the formation of post-Soviet communist organisations. Founded in November 1991, the

Central Committee of the party for "lack of revolutionary activity."[20]

Nina Andreyeva died in

St. Petersburg on 24 July 2020.[21]

Works

References

  1. ^ "О партии - ВКПБ". vkpb.ru.
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  3. ^ Quote: "...вопросы подняты серьезные и в таком ключе, который иначе как идейной платформой, манифестом антиперестроечных сил не назовешь. "
  4. ^ "New Ferment On the Pariah Of Perestroika", NY Times
  5. ^ Keller, Bill (26 June 1990). "Evolution in Europe; A Neo-Stalinist Yearns for Old Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 January 2021. A Communist Party member for 24 of her 51 years, Mrs. Andreyeva says she thinks of quitting the party to help form one with a real Marxist-Leninist backbone.
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  7. ^ Gutterman, Steve (31 July 2020). "The Week In Russia: The Death Of An Anti-Perestroika Icon And A Wagnerian Riddle In Belarus". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  8. ^ a b c d Remnick, David (28 July 1989). "Gorbachev's Furious Critic". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  9. ^ Skillen, p. 128
  10. ^ Goldman, Marshall L. (April 28, 1988). "Wide Bitterness at Gorbachev's Glasnost Shouts Through". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 5, 2021. But the Pravda reply indicates how far the Soviet Union has to go before there is real glasnost in the Soviet Union. It took three weeks for the reply to appear.
  11. ^ Keller, Bill (5 May 1988). "New Ferment On the Pariah Of Perestroika". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 January 2021. For three weeks, even the most daring Soviet editors did not publish a response.
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  13. ISBN 978-0-06-113879-9
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  14. ^ Gorbachev, M. S. (1996). Memoirs. New York: Doubleday.
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  16. ^ Remnick, David (1993). Lenin's Tomb. New York City: Random House. pp. 74–84.
  17. ^ Shanker, Tom (July 8, 1990). "Science Teacher Says Stalin Had It Right All Along". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  18. ^ Barringer, Felicity (31 August 1991). "Soviet Turmoil; Communist Party Dead? Hard-Liner Says Just Wait Until Soviet Winter". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  19. ^ "Russian Political Parties: APrimer" (PDF). Central Intelligence Agency. 1 April 1992. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 25, 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
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  21. ^ "Умерла автор "манифеста антиперестроечных сил" Нина Андреева". 26 July 2020.

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