 In her foreword to the reprint (written in September 1988) she noted that the courtesy copies of her 1977 book that she had sent to Soviet museums and libraries at the time had not been available to the general reader there but she hoped that in the period of "glasnost" that the reprinting of her book would be propitious and be part of the general reassessment and rectification of history in the USSR.In the book she explains how their motives were more liberal than revolutionary and related as much to their wish for personal autonomy as to their wish for political reform.A "festschrift" was issued in Kridl Valkenier's honour in 2014.