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In any society there are the mavericks and you will find them among the Soviet students too—just as you will find the committed Komsomol activists, who take the attendance register, organise the subbotniki (the cleaning-up of the hostels and yards), run the student council, organise political meetings and write references for job applicants).^([sic])
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Ivanova, a Moscow municipal engineer, joined thousands of other Muscovites who volunteered a few hours to help tidy this littered, muddy capital. They were seeking to revive, in a new guise, the communist tradition of subbotniki – donating one's labor to the state on the Saturday after Vladimir Lenin's birthday.
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To clean up areas near the sporting sites, Mayor Anatol Sobchak even revived the communist practice of subbotniki, or ostensible “voluntary” work on Saturdays.
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Though the individual was the initiator, his or her success enlisted others in group movements, such as the Subbotniks, who in 1919 gave every Saturday (Subbota) without pay to work on the railroads, repairing cars and engines and loading freight; […]
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