...support among the population. As Brudny shows, Russophile candidates did miserably in the competitive elections to the USSR Congress of People's Deputies in the spring of 1989. In the wake of this defeat, however, nationalist intellectuals were working to build a coalition with...

...making the ECP appear more centrist. The overwhelming victories by front-supported candidates in the elections to the USSR Congress of People's Deputies in the spring of 1989 underscored the demise of the old political system. In Lithuania, front-supported candidates were elected...

...volunteers rapidly. Soviet society in general became more politicized with the advent of multicandidate elections to the USSR Congress of People's Deputies in the spring of 1989. Because the first semidemocratic elections for national offices were held when political parties were...