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Nina Andreyeva

January 01, 1970

Nina Alexandrovna Andreyeva (Russian: Нина Александровна Андреева, 12 October 1938 – 24 July 2020) was a Soviet and Russian chemist, teacher, author, political activist, and social critic.[2] A supporter of classical Soviet principles, she wrote an essay entitled I Cannot Forsake My Principles [ru] that defended many aspects of the traditional Soviet system, and criticized 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]

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
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died24 July 2020 (aged 81)
St. Petersburg, Russia
Political partyAll-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1991–2020)
Other political
affiliations		Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1966–1991)

Career in chemistry edit

She was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and was a chemistry lecturer at the Leningrad Technological Institute. She joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) around 1966.[5]

I Cannot Forsake My Principles edit

Andreyeva's essay I Cannot Forsake My Principles (Не могу поступаться принципами; variously translated in English commentary) was published in the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya on March 13, 1988, at a time when Gorbachev and Alexander Yakovlev were either about to start on overseas visit or already abroad, and was initiated and approved by the secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, 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 In the originally unpublished portions, Andreyeva commented that Stalin's critics wrote "in the language of Goebbels" and referred to "nations of little importance, like the Crimean Tartars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 edit

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 All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (initially Bolshevik Platform), Andreyeva was the party general secretary and the party wanted a mass campaign to replace Boris Yeltsin.[19] It saw itself as the successor to the CPSU. In October 1993, the party was temporarily suspended along with fifteen other organisations after President Yeltsin's repression implemented after a constitutional crisis. In May 1995 she was removed from the post as the head of the St. Petersburg Central Committee of the party for "lack of revolutionary activity."[20]

Nina Andreyeva died in St. Petersburg on 24 July 2020.[21]

Works edit

  • Andreyeva, Nina (1992). The Cause of Socialism is Invincible. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. ASIN B0041SY99A.
  • — (1993). Unpresented Principles or a Brief History of Perestroika: (Selected Articles and Speeches). Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. OCLC 476436091.
  • — (2002). За Большевизм в Коммунистическом Движении [For Bolshevism in the Communist Movement]. Leningrad: Publishing House of the All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks.

References edit

  1. ^ "О партии - ВКПБ". vkpb.ru.
  2. ^ James R. Millar, ed. (2004). Encyclopedia of Russian history. Detroit: Thomson Gale. pp. v. 1, p. 60. ISBN 0028659074.
  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.
  6. ^ a b c Skillen, Daphne (2017). Freedom of Speech: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin. London & New York City: Routledge. pp. 126–127. ISBN 9781317659891.
  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.
  12. ^ Taubman, William (2017). Gorbachev: His Life and Times. London: Simon & Schuster. p. 290. ISBN 9781471128622.
  13. ^ Brown, Archie (2009). The Rise and Fall of Communism. New York City: Ecco. pp. 504–506. ISBN 978-0-06-113879-9.
  14. ^ Gorbachev, M. S. (1996). Memoirs. New York: Doubleday.
  15. ^ Dobbs, Michael (1997). Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. London: Bloomsbury. p. 202. ISBN 9781408851029.
  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. ^ (PDF). Central Intelligence Agency. 1 April 1992. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 25, 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  20. ^ James R. Millar, ed. (2004). Encyclopedia of Russian history. Detroit: Thomson Gale. pp. v. 1, p. 61. ISBN 0028659074.
  21. ^ "Умерла автор "манифеста антиперестроечных сил" Нина Андреева". 26 July 2020.

External links edit

  • as published in Sovetskaia Rossiia on March 13, 1988
  • All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks official site

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Nina Andreyeva news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Nina Alexandrovna Andreyeva Russian Nina Aleksandrovna Andreeva 12 October 1938 24 July 2020 was a Soviet and Russian chemist teacher author political activist and social critic 2 A supporter of classical Soviet principles she wrote an essay entitled I Cannot Forsake My Principles ru that defended many aspects of the traditional Soviet system and criticized 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 Nina Alexandrovna AndreyevaNina Aleksandrovna AndreevaNina Andreyeva 1 May 1995General Secretary of the All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks 1 In office 8 November 1991 24 July 2020Personal detailsBorn12 October 1938Leningrad Russian SFSR Soviet UnionDied24 July 2020 aged 81 St Petersburg RussiaPolitical partyAll Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks 1991 2020 Other politicalaffiliationsCommunist Party of the Soviet Union 1966 1991 Contents 1 Career in chemistry 2 I Cannot Forsake My Principles 3 Subsequent career 4 Works 5 References 6 External linksCareer in chemistry editShe was born in Leningrad now St Petersburg and was a chemistry lecturer at the Leningrad Technological Institute She joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union CPSU around 1966 5 I Cannot Forsake My Principles editAndreyeva s essay I Cannot Forsake My Principles Ne mogu postupatsya principami variously translated in English commentary was published in the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya on March 13 1988 at a time when Gorbachev and Alexander Yakovlev were either about to start on overseas visit or already abroad and was initiated and approved by the secretary of the Communist Party s Central Committee 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 Unita 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 editBy 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 All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks initially Bolshevik Platform Andreyeva was the party general secretary and the party wanted a mass campaign to replace Boris Yeltsin 19 It saw itself as the successor to the CPSU In October 1993 the party was temporarily suspended along with fifteen other organisations after President Yeltsin s repression implemented after a constitutional crisis In May 1995 she was removed from the post as the head of the St Petersburg Central Committee of the party for lack of revolutionary activity 20 Nina Andreyeva died in St Petersburg on 24 July 2020 21 Works editAndreyeva Nina 1992 The Cause of Socialism is Invincible Pyongyang Foreign Languages Publishing House ASIN B0041SY99A 1993 Unpresented Principles or a Brief History of Perestroika Selected Articles and Speeches Pyongyang Foreign Languages Publishing House OCLC 476436091 2002 Za Bolshevizm v Kommunisticheskom Dvizhenii For Bolshevism in the Communist Movement Leningrad Publishing House of the All Union Communist Party Bolsheviks References edit O partii VKPB vkpb ru James R Millar ed 2004 Encyclopedia of Russian history Detroit Thomson Gale pp v 1 p 60 ISBN 0028659074 Quote voprosy podnyaty sereznye i v takom klyuche kotoryj inache kak idejnoj platformoj manifestom antiperestroechnyh sil ne nazovesh New Ferment On the Pariah Of Perestroika NY Times 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 a b c Skillen Daphne 2017 Freedom of Speech Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin London amp New York City Routledge pp 126 127 ISBN 9781317659891 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 a b c d Remnick David 28 July 1989 Gorbachev s Furious Critic The Washington Post Retrieved 5 January 2021 Skillen p 128 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 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 Taubman William 2017 Gorbachev His Life and Times London Simon amp Schuster p 290 ISBN 9781471128622 Brown Archie 2009 The Rise and Fall of Communism New York City Ecco pp 504 506 ISBN 978 0 06 113879 9 Gorbachev M S 1996 Memoirs New York Doubleday Dobbs Michael 1997 Down with Big Brother The Fall of the Soviet Empire London Bloomsbury p 202 ISBN 9781408851029 Remnick David 1993 Lenin s Tomb New York City Random House pp 74 84 Shanker Tom July 8 1990 Science Teacher Says Stalin Had It Right All Along Chicago Tribune Retrieved 5 January 2021 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 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 James R Millar ed 2004 Encyclopedia of Russian history Detroit Thomson Gale pp v 1 p 61 ISBN 0028659074 Umerla avtor manifesta antiperestroechnyh sil Nina Andreeva 26 July 2020 External links editFull text of I Cannot Waive Principles archived as published in Sovetskaia Rossiia on March 13 1988 All Union Communist Party Bolsheviks official site Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nina Andreyeva amp 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