Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Continuity and Change; 1 The Reforming Tradition in Russian History; Ideology and Culture; 2 The Neo-Leninist Temptation: Gorbachevism and the Party Intelligentsia; 3 Russian Literature from the Thaw to Glasnost; The Politics of Change; 4 Developments in Local Soviet Politics; 5 Perestroika from Below: Voluntary Sociopolitical Associations in the RSFSR; 6 The Concept of the Law-Governed State and Soviet Legal Reform; The Party and the Economy; 7 Phasing out the Party Apparat as Economic Manager; 8 Economic Reform without Direction
9 Restructuring the System of Ownership in the USSRThe Nationality Problem; 10 A Successful Perestroika in Nationality Relations? (Or, An Essay to Grasp a Disintegrating Subject); 11 The Politics of Language Policy: A Case Study of Uzbekistan; Foreign Policy; 12 COMECON's Travails; 13 Gorbachev's Third-World Policy: Tendencies; 14 Speculations on the Geopolitics of the Gorbachev Era; Contributors; Index
