WORLD : Soviet Party Takes Medvedev Back
The Communist Party has restored membership to dissident historian Roy A. Medvedev, whose writings about the personality cult of dictator Josef Stalin prompted his expulsion in 1969, Tass said today.
Medvedev had asked the party’s Central Committee Control Committee to be restored as a party member, and the request was approved, the official news agency said without giving a date for the action. Like many Soviets who had fallen out of official favor, Medvedev has gradually been restored to good graces. He was elected April 9 as a deputy to the new Soviet parliament, the Congress of People’s Deputies.
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