ABSTRACT
The contributors to this volume have undertaken an assessment of the Soviet Union as it enters the last decade of the 20th century. Organized to cover each major area of policy initiative (or response), the collection surveys the Gorbachev reform agenda and its successes and failures to date in various fields, including culture, economics, ideology, law, politics, federalism and the nationality problem, and foreign policy vis-a-vis the West, Eastern Europe and the Third World.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |28 pages
Continuity and Change
part |44 pages
Ideology and Culture
part |82 pages
The Politics of Change
part |78 pages
The Party and the Economy
part |46 pages
The Nationality Problem
chapter 10|29 pages
A Successful Perestroika in Nationality Relations?
Or, An Essay to Grasp a Disintegrating Subject
part |84 pages
Foreign Policy