ABSTRACT
Russia is replete with likely stories, the contents of them being in part an 'ironic or tragic juxtaposition with real life' in a particular and damaging form. Some have been translated and made familiar by international publication. Randomness, chaotic interventions or consequences, and accidents should arguably not be eradicated from social enquiry, but exposed and considered in detail to ascertain the potential for intransigence, reversion or dialectical acceleration. High politics has a reputation of being intolerant of ideas that attempt to understand a situation. How the disruption occurred in the Soviet, which agents were part of the process and in what context activism was seemingly repressed so a realistic sense could be made of the situation is the raison d'etre of this modest piece. The brilliance of the Brezhnev era had arguably dazzled only the most opportunistic and corrupt members of the old Nomenklatura system.
