| Description |
xxviii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Problems in European civilization series
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Problems in European civilization.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Modernization and social change / Moshe Lewin -- Revolutionary process / Robert V. Daniels -- Democratic vision / Andrei Sakharov -- Generations of leadership / Seweryn Bialer -- Old regime in crisis / Tatiana Zaslavskaya -- Succession and reform / Archie Brown -- Revolutionary promise / Mikhail Gorbachev -- Market socialism / Abel Aganbegyan -- Glasnost / Walter Laqueur -- Ferment among the minorities / Paul Goble -- Conservative reaction / Nina Andreyeva -- Rule of law / Robert Sharlet -- Democratic experiment / Michael E. Urban -- Congress of People's Deputies / Giulietto Chiesa -- Renaissance of Boris Yeltsin / John Morrison and Boris Yeltsin -- Economic impasse / Anders Åslund -- Radical alternative / Stanislav Shatalin -- Minorities' struggle for sovereignty / Stephen White -- Patching up the union : documents from Pravda and Izvestiya -- Party tries to change : draft program of the CPSU -- August coup / Martin Sixsmith -- Breakup of the Communist Party / John Miller and J.L. Black -- Collapse of the planned economy / Peter Rutland and Marek Dabrowski -- Triumph of self-determination / Hélène Carrère D'Encausse -- End of the USSR -- Revolutionary self-destruction / Charles H. Fairbanks -- Reform or revolution? / Thomas F. Remington -- Transition to capitalism / Alexander Rubtsov -- Fate of the working class / Elizabeth Teague -- Prospects for democracy : roundtable -- A new time of troubles? / James H. Billington. |
| Subject |
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.
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Soviet Union. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1985-1991 |
| Added Author |
Daniels, Robert V. (Robert Vincent), 1926-2010.
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| ISBN |
0669331449 |
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