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5 February 2020

Soviet Miners’ Strikes, Thirty Years Later: What Miners Demanded in 1989 and 1991, Part II

Soviet Miners’ Strikes, Thirty Years Later: What Miners Demanded in 1989 and 1991, Part II

By describing the benefits the mine accrued thanks to its specialists and white-collar employees, the "Izvestiia" article points to the intellectual nature of work performed by those striking miners called...

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4 February 2020

Soviet Miners’ Strikes, Thirty Years Later: What Miners Demanded in 1989 and 1991, Part I

Soviet Miners’ Strikes, Thirty Years Later: What Miners Demanded in 1989 and 1991, Part I

In 2009 the former chair of the Donetsk Strike Committee recalled in an interview to the newspaper "Segodnia," “We never pursued the goal of Soviet collapse. We were against the...

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