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The Emergence of Civil Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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Now Iam not concerned with definitions. Instead I would like to discuss very briefly the appearance of three organizations in Central Asia that are independent of the state. Everyone knows about the popular fronts in the Baltics; everyone has heard presentations about Ukraine, Belorussia, and Moldavia. I decided, therefore, to take the “hopeless” people, about whom one Soviet diplomat said two years ago: “They are not ready yet for democracy because they have jumped from the feudal system to the socialist system, avoiding your wonderful capitalistic stage when you created democratic institutions.” I want to demonstrate that democratic institutions were indeed created independently from the state in these Central Asian republics.
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- Part II: Asserting National Sovereignty
- Information
- Nationalities Papers , Volume 19 , Issue 1: Special Issue - The Soviet Nationalities despite Gorbachev , Spring 1991 , pp. 76 - 78
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- Copyright © 1991 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc.