Censorship Group Individual Blog 1

This entry is for the week of February 24th.  I accidentally failed to post it over the weekend. 

I've been doing research into the response of citizens to a sudden reintroduction of civil rights.  I've been focusing on the glasnost of the USSR and how the sudden freedom of the press combined with the failures of perestroika led to the complete collapse of the Soviet Union.  I've found a book archived by google called Encyclopedia of Soviet Life that has a section on the immediate response to glasnost.  I intend to find more resources about the collapse of the USSR and draw parallels between the atrocities that the citizens of the USSR discovered with the atrocites that China has committed.