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• ISBN: 0394581903
• ISBN: 9780394581903
• ISBN: 0380716518
• ISBN: 9780380716517
• Physical Description: xxxi, 621 pages ; 24 cm
• Edition: First edition.
• Publisher: New York : Random House, [1990]
• Copyright: ©1990

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-580) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Roots of reform: The hidden wellsprings of reform ; The Brezhnev generation : slide into cynicism ; Gorbachev and Khrushchev generation ; How did Gorbachev make it to the top? -- pt. 2. The awakening: "What do you think?" ; Glasnost : a marriage of political convenience ; Troubadours of truth ; Stalinism : the open wound ; The media versus the apparat -- pt. 3. Looking for Perestroika: The culture of envy ; Why the reluctant farmers? ; The captive captains of Soviet industry ; The new entrepreneurs : trying out capitalism -- pt. 4. The empire tearing apart: Uzbekistan : "Our language is our heart and our soul" ; Armenia and Azerbaijan : a Soviet Lebanon ; Lithuania : breaking the taboo of secession ; Backlash in Mother Russia -- pt. 5. The taste of democracy: Grass-roots activism : reinventing politics ; Elections : crossing out party bosses ; Congress : genesis of an opposition ; Communism : "knee-deep in gasoline" ; The party : losing power, losing people ; City Hall : the new political entrepreneurs -- pt. 6. Conclusion: The outlook : will it collapse of will it endure?

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Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-
Soviet Union > Social conditions > 1970-1991.