Nina Andreyeva

Nina Aleksandrovna Andreyeva (Russian: Нина Александровна Андреева, born 12 October 1938) is a 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 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 Aleksandrovna Andreyeva
Нина Александровна Андреева
General Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks[1]
Assumed office
8 November 1991
Personal details
Born12 October 1938
NationalityRussian
Political partyAll-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1991-)
Other political
affiliations		Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1966–1991)

Career in chemistry

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) in 1966.

I Cannot Forsake My Principles

Her 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 abroad, and cited an anti-Gorbachev report by the secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, Yegor Ligachev.

Conservative party officials welcomed the essay, whereas supporters of Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin feared that it represented a major threat for them. Gorbachev subsequently revealed that many members of the Politburo seemed to share Andreyeva's views, and that he had to coerce them into approving the publication of an official rejoinder. The published response appeared in Pravda on 5 April 1988.[5]

Subsequent career

Andreyeva subsequently played a leadership role in the formation of communist organisations. She headed the organizing committee of the Bolshevik Platform of the CPSU that expelled Gorbachev from the party in September 1991. In November 1991, she became the general secretary of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, which 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 of the attempted coup against his regime. 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." [6] Andreyeva was interviewed as part of Daivid Remnick's 1993 book Lenin's Tomb. [7]

Works
  • 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
  1. User, Super. "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. Brown, Archie (2009). The Rise and Fall of Communism. New York City: Ecco. pp. 504–506. ISBN 978-0-06-113879-9.
  6. James R. Millar, ed. (2004). Encyclopedia of Russian history. Detroit: Thomson Gale. pp. v. 1, p. 61. ISBN 0028659074.
  7. Remnick, David (1993). Lenin's Tomb. New York: Random House. pp. 74–84.
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