Background
She was born in Leningrad, and was a chemistry lecturer at the Leningrad Technological Institute.
She was born in Leningrad, and was a chemistry lecturer at the Leningrad Technological Institute.
She joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) in 1966. Her essay ("Не могу поступаться принципами". Variously translated in English commentary) was published in the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya on March 13, 1988, at a time when Gorbachev and Alexander Yakovlev were abroad, and cited an anti-Gorbachev report by the secretary of the Party"s Central Committee, Yegor Ligachev.
Conservative party officials welcomed the essay, whereas supporters of Gorbachev and Yeltsin feared that it represented a major threat for them.
The published response appeared in Pravda on 5 April 1988. In the aftermath of this discussion, the General Secretary at least temporarily tightened his own control over the Secretariat of the Central Committee.
The entire episode may have contributed to his decision to reform the Secretariat in the autumn of 1988. Andreyeva subsequently played a leadership role in the formation of communist organisations.
She headed the organising committee of the Bolshevik Platform of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that "expelled" Gorbachev from the party in September 1991.
In November 1991, she became the general secretary of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. In October 1993, the party was temporarily suspended along with fifteen other organisations after President Yeltsin"s repression of the attempted coup against his regime. In May 1995 she was removed from the post as the head of the Saint St. Petersburg Central Committee of the party for "lack of revolutionary activity.".
In the rebuke published in the official party newspaper Pravda the essay was called "The Manifesto of Anti-Perestroika Forces".
A supporter of classical Soviet principles, she wrote an essay that defended many aspects of the traditional Soviet system, and criticized General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his closest supporters for not being real communists.
Gorbachev subsequently revealed that many members of the Political Bureau seemed to share Andreyeva"s views, and that he had to coerce them into approving the publication of an official rejoinder.