Perestroika at the Crossroads

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. Part 1 Continuity and Change; Chapter 1 The Reforming Tradition in Russian History, Alfred J. Rieber; Part 2 Ideology and Culture; Chapter 2 The Neo-Leninist Temptation, Vladimir Tismaneanu; Chapter 3 Russian Literature from the Thaw to Glasnost, Helen Segall; Part 3 The Politics of Change; Chapter 4 Developments in Local Soviet Politics, Jeffrey W. Hahn; Chapter 5 Perestroika From Below, Nicolai N. Petro; Chapter 6 The Concept of the Law-Governed State and Soviet Legal Reform, Donald D. Barry; Part 4 The Party and the Economy; Chapter 7 Phasing out the Party Apparat as Economic Manager, Robert J. Osborn; Chapter 8 Economic Reform without Direction, Fyodor I. Kushnirsky; Chapter 9 Restructuring the System of Ownership in the USSR, Stanislaw Pomorski; Part 5 The Nationality Problem; Chapter 10 A Successful Perestroika in Nationality Relations?, Yaroslav Bilinsky; Chapter 11 The Politics of Language Policy, Michael Lenker; Part 6 Foreign Policy; Chapter 12 Comecon's Travails, George Ginsburgs; Chapter 13 Gorbachev's Third-World Policy, Alvin Z. Rubinstein; Chapter 14 Speculations on the Geopolitics of the Gorbachev Era, Walter A. McDougall;