Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT ·
Soviet miners’ strikes (1989)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The miners’ strike”
10 Jul 1989 — Coal miners at Mezhdurechensk walk out over soap, food and pay, and within days hundreds of thousands of miners in the Kuzbass, the Donbas and Vorkuta join them. The workers’ state faced its largest strike since the 1920s, led by the class it claimed to represent.
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- Perestroika and glasnost (chapter 8 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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