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"A Word to the People" (Russian: «Слово к народу») was an open letter signed by a number of Soviet politicians, literati and other figures.〔(For the original text and the list of signatories, see )〕 The declaration was published in ''Sovetskaya Rossiya'' (a newspaper that expressed anti-perestroika views) on 23 July 1991. Among signatories of the publication were Yuri Bondarev, Valentin Varennikov, Gennady Zyuganov, Alexander Prokhanov, Valentin Rasputin, and Vasily Starodubtsev. The authors of the writing appealed to the citizens of the country, severely criticizing the policies of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, and they pleaded to avoid the collapse of the Soviet Union, suggesting the formation of new opposition movements. An enormous, unforeseen calamity has taken place. Motherland, our land, a great power, given to us to ward with the nature, glorious ancestors, it is perishing, breaking apart, falling into darkness and nonbeing. And this collapse takes place at our silence, toleration and accord.<...> According to V. Bondarenko, it was Alexander Prokhanov who wrote the text of the publication.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=MvW-Wy-keSoC&pg=PA144&dq=%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE+%D0%BA+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES&ei=6gcPSvOGMYWKygS48aiqDw〕 Three of the signatories (Valentin Varennikov, Alexander Tizyakov, and Vasily Starodubtsev) later joined the State Committee on the State of Emergency in the 1991 August Coup attempt against Gorbachev.〔(История недели: «Слово к народу» ) // «Финанс.», № 25 (115), 18-24 июля 2005〕 In his memoirs, Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, a founder of perestroika and former head of the propaganda department of the Communist Party, regarded the letter as "demagogic", a volume of "rabid passages and at the same time desperate sighs of the soul", and "a vulgar work".〔(Сумерки России ) // Лебедь (альманах), № 450, 6 ноября 2005〕 The letter has also been regarded as a call to arms on the eve of the August Coup.〔(''The Russian question'' by Wayne Allensworth p. 164 )〕 According to A. James Gregor, the signatories (a number of them active CPSU members) abandoned class war rhetoric, emphasizing rather "a salvation of the Motherland",〔''Phoenix'' by A. James Gregor p. 153. http://books.google.com/books?id=EIJXYCBFqnUC&pg=PA153&dq=soviet+union+%22A+Word+to+the+People%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES〕 stressing the priority of patriotism〔http://books.google.com/books?id=Q3yMZU3V4X4C&pg=PA258&dq=soviet+union+%22A+Word+to+the+People%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES〕 over Soviet Marxist ideology. Two Central Committee members, Otto Latsis and Andrey Grachev, explicitly attacked the publication in their speeches at the plenum, but were heckled and had difficulty in making themselves heard.〔The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown. Oxford, 1996. p 292〕 Ten years after the publication, on 14 August 2001, ''Sovetskaya Rossiya'' published an appeal entitled "Stop reforms of death!" («Остановить „реформы смерти“!»), in which the letter "A Word to the People" was called "prophesying". ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Word to the People」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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