Vremia peremen, vremia nadezhd: Sbornik posviashchen desiatiletiiu pervogo Sezda narodnykh deputatov SSSR [Translation from the Russian as: The Time of Change, The Time of Hope: Dedicated to the 10th Anniversary of the 1st Congress of Peoples Deputies of the USSR]

Moscow: NosuMEqua [PoliMEdia], 1999. 1 of 3000. Hardcover. 229, [3] pages. Illustrations. Inscribed on fep to Ardjun by O. Borodiy and A. Yaroshinskaya and dated May 30, 2000. Format is 5.75 inches by 8.75 inches. The Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian SFSR and since 1991 Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation was the supreme government institution in the Russian SFSR and in the Russian Federation from 16 May 1990 to 21 September 1993. Elected on 4 March 1990 for a period of five years, it was dissolved (without constitutional authority) by presidential decree during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 and ended de facto when the Russian White House was attacked on 4 October 1993. The Congress played an important role some of the most important events in the history of Russia during this period, such as the declaration of independence of Russia from the USSR (December 1991), the rise of Boris Yeltsin, and economic reforms. The A. Yaroshinskaya who signed the inscription may be Alla Yaroshinskaya (born 14 February 1953 in Zhytomyr Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician and journalist. She was a member of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1991, Deputy to the Minister of Press and Information until 1993, and then Adviser to the Russian President Boris Yeltsin and member of the Russian Presidential Council. She has been a prominent campaigner for perestroika and for better aid and information following the Chernobyl disaster. She was President of the Ecological Charity Fund, and is Co-chair of the Russian Ecological Congress, Chief of the Federal Council of the all-Russian Social Democratic Movement and a member of other international committees. She is author or co-author of over 20 books and over 700 articles on freedom of speech, human rights, nuclear ecology and nuclear security. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Russian Federation, Congress of People's Deputies, Tenth Anniversary, Commemorative Works, Gorbachev, Glasnost, Perestroika

ISBN: 5891800071

[Book #75187]

Price: $150.00