The Soviet System In Crisis A Reader Of Western And Soviet Views

Preface -- Credits -- Introduction -- The Setting: An Introduction -- The Roots of Perestroika -- A Usable Past -- The Communist System -- Domestic and International Factors in the Formation of Gorbachev's Reforms -- Politics Before Gorbachev: De-Stalinization and the Roots of Reform -- The Friends and Foes of Change: Reformism and Conservatism in the Soviet Union -- Letter to the Soviet Leaders, March 19, 1970 -- The Pioneers of Perestroika: Back to the Intellectual Roots of Soviet Reforms -- Reform and the Political and Social System -- A Socialist Pluralism of Opinions: Glasnost and Policy-Making Under Gorbachev -- Political Change in the Soviet Union -- State and Society: Toward the Emergence of Civil Society in the Soviet Union -- Voluntary Associations in Gorbachev's Reform Program -- The Emergence of Russian Multiparty Politics -- The Workers' Movement: A New Stage -- Evaluating Gorbachev as Leader -- The Quality of Gorbachev's Leadership -- Gorbachev's Endgame -- Soviet Political Debates -- Glasnost' and Soviet Culture -- Politics and History Under Gorbachev -- Advances and Debts -- Sources -- Are Our Principles Any Good? -- Speech at the Conference of the Aktiv of the Khabarovsk Territory Party Organization, July 31, 1986 -- Address at the Forty-Third UN General Assembly Session, December 7, 1988 -- Speech to the Russian Federation Congress of People's Deputies, Moscow, May 22, 1990 -- I Cannot Forgo My Principles -- The Tragedy of Centralism -- I Can't Absolve Myself of Guilt -- The Architects of Card Houses -- Democratic Platform Program of the CPSU, Statement of June 1, 1990 -- The Economy -- Is Soviet Socialism Reformable? -- The Soviet Economy on a Treadmill of Perestroika: Gorbachev's First Five Years -- The New Soviet Plan -- Beyond Perestroyka: The Soviet Economy in Crisis -- Nationalism and the Future of the Federal System -- State, Civil Society and Ethnic Cultural Consolidation in the USSR: Roots of the National Question -- Gorbachev's Nationalities Problem -- Dilemmas of Russian Nationalism -- Soviet Jewry in the Age of Perestroika -- The Russian Question: In Search of an Answer (a Roundtable) -- Declarations of the State Sovereignty of the Russian and Ukrainian Republics -- Foreign Policy and National Security -- The Revolution in Soviet Foreign Policy -- East-West: The Problem of Deideologizing Relations -- The Search for New East-West Relations -- New Thinking About World Communism -- Gorbachev and German Unification: Revision of Thinking, Realignment of Power -- The USSR and the Third World in the 1980's -- Soviet National Security Under Gorbachev -- State, Society, and the Military Under Gorbachev -- The Future of the System -- Thinking About the Soviet Future -- To the Stalin Mausoleum -- Managing U.S.-Soviet Relations in the 1990s -- From Points to Pathways of Mutual Advantage: Next Steps in Soviet-American Relations -- Speech to the Congress of People's Deputies, December 20, 1990 -- Speech to the Congress of People's Deputies, December 22, 1990 -- Conclusion

Biography

"Alexander Dallinis Raymond Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University. Gail W. Lapidusis professor of political science at the University of California-Berkeley and chair of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies."