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Les Cadres Communisstes face à la bifurcation de 1991: modes de gesstion de la crise biographique

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Biographical accounts collected during interviews conducted in two former Soviet republics (Belarus and Ukraine) are used to analyze the effects on Communist officials’ careers of the collapse of the Soviet system following the failed coup attempt of 19 August 1991. By relating this systemic rupture to the objective and subjective dimensions of these six biographies, this analysis sheds light on two major ways these persons managed this life crisis. Their careers would now unfold outside the Communist framework; identities were reworked and renegotiated; this new role was endorsed while former identifications with the vanishing world of Communism were maintained. The enrollment of these Communist officials in professional “subspheres” other than Communist Party organizations not only provided new opportunities when the USSR collapsed but also opened a way out of the crisis for these executives.

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  • Shukan, Ioulia, 2011. "Les Cadres Communisstes face à la bifurcation de 1991: modes de gesstion de la crise biographique," Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, Editions NecPlus, vol. 42(03), pages 15-37, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nec:retceo:v:42:y:2011:i:03:p:15-37_00
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