Problems of leisure and glasnost

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The new liberalization in the USSR has created legal opportunities for the extreme right (as well as for liberals), opportunities which some young people are using to combat liberalization itself. With some young people there evidently exists a certain nostalgia for the past, for a strong master, for a mixture of patriarchal nationalism and totalitarian traditions. It is similar to what Erich Fromm once called the ‘flight from freedom’ whereby certain social groups see democracy as a threat to their set traditions, their way of life and security. The emergence of ultra-patriotic groups of ‘muscular socialists’ and neofascists in Soviet society within the last few years shows the complexity of social change in a society like the USSR, and the problems that Gorbachov has to face in implementing his policies of perestroika, glasnost and democratisation.

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