Labor pains in the Soviet Union; miners' hopes deferred.

From: The Nation | Date: May 27, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

The headquarters of the strike that has closed many of this country's mines for the past two months is a room in the Hotel Rossiya, literally within a stone's throw of Red Square. The room is occupied by delegates from the interregional strike (a k a workers') committees. They come in and out, stopping long enough to smoke a few cigarettes, drink a cup of tea and exchange the latest information. This is a postmodern strike. In between arguments about whether the comrades can hold out until the Russian presidential election in June, they ask my advice about what kind of page ...

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