Siberia in the Political-Legal Space of Post-Communist Russia (Based on the Materials of the Siberian Human Rights Association «Vienna-89», the Democratic Union, the Newspaper «Free Democratic Siberia»)

Abstract

The collapse of the Soviet Union was preceded by the intensification of the political opposition that put forward various concepts of state reform. Within the opposition, the oldest organization of right political emigration, standing on anti-communist positions, the People's Labor Union of Russian Solidarists (NTS), self-identifying itself as a Russian national organization. In 1997 the organization adopted the program document “The Way to the Future of Russia”. Among the organizations operating on the basis of the program in the USSR, the most active were the Siberian Human Rights Association “Vienna-89” and “The Democratic Union”. These organizations have extended their work to Siberia. Analysis of lawmaking and practical activities of organizations close to the NTS provides an opportunity to track the technology of the collapse of the state. Hence the practical interest of the work is to reveal the stages of the activity leading to disintegration and prevent a repetition of the geopolitical catastrophe.