Perestroika (Restructuring), club

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PERESTROIKA (Restructuring), multi-disciplinary club, initiated in 1987 for the support "from below" of the restructuring policy proclaimed by M.S. Gorbachev and the realization of the concept of socialist-type people's self-government. The club was quartered in Leningrad Soviet Recreation Centre at 42 Kirovsky (present-day Kamennoostrovsky) Avenue, held scientific and political discussions, dealt with economic and sociological elaborations, drafted bills. The founders of the club included A.G. Golov, V.N. Monakhov, A.B. Chubays and others (altogether about 70 members and over 100 candidates; 50 % of them were affiliated to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or All-Union Leninist Young Communist League). In 1988-89 members of Perestroika took an active part in the work of new democratic organisations; in 1989 the club ceased to exist. Over time, some 20 members of Perestroika became deputies at various levels and high officials.

References: Общественные движения Ленинграда: Информ. бюл. Л., 1989.

V. E. Dolinin. Chubays Anatoly Borisovich
Golov Anatoly Grigorievich
Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeevich
Monakhov V.N.
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 42
Общественные движения Ленинграда: Информ. бюл. Л., 1989 1987