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The Soviet system : from crisis to collapse

Author: Alexander Dallin; Gail Warshofsky Lapidus
Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:  Book : English : Rev. edView all editions and formats
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Published originally as "The Soviet System in Crisis - a Reader of Western and Soviet Views", this revised edition offers a discussion of the transformation of communism under Gorbachev and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. A wide variety of views is represented.
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alexander Dallin; Gail Warshofsky Lapidus
ISBN: 0813318769 9780813318769
OCLC Number: 31206717
Notes: Rev. ed. of: The Soviet system in crisis. 1991.
Description: xvii, 725 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The setting : an introduction / Alexander Dallin and Gail W. Lapidus --
pt. 1. The roots of perestroika --
A usable past / S. Frederick Starr --
The communist system / Richard Pipes --
Domestic and international factors in the formation of Gorbachev's reforms / Seweryn Bialer --
Politics before Gorbachev : de-Stalinization and the roots of reform / Peter Hauslohner --
The friends and foes of change : reformism and conservatism in the Soviet Union / Stephen F. Cohen --
Letter to the Soviet leaders, March 19, 1970 / Andrei Sakharov, Roy Medvedev and Valery Turchin --
The pioneers of perestroika : back to the intellectual roots of Soviet reforms / David Remnick --
pt. 2. Reform and the political and social system --
The beginnings of independent political activity / Geoffrey A. Hosking --
Political change in the Soviet Union / Archie Brown --
State and society : toward the emergence of civil society in the Soviet Union / Gail W. Lapidus --
The emergence of independent associations and the transformation of Russian political society / Steven Fish --
Evaluating Gorbachev as leader / George W. Breslauer --
The quality of Gorbachev's leadership / Peter Reddaway --
Gorbachev's endgame / Jerry F. Hough --
pt. 3. Soviet political debates --
Glasnost' and Soviet culture / Josephine Woll --
Politics and history under Gorbachev / Thomas Sherlock --
Advances and debts / Nikolai Shmelev --
Sources / Vasily Selyunin --
Are our principles any good? / Aleksandr Tsipko --
Speech at the Conference of the Aktiv of the Khabarovsk Territory Party Organization, July 31, 1986 / Mikhail S. Gorbachev --
I cannot forgo my principles / Nina Andreyeva --
The tragedy of centralism / Aleksandr Prokhanov --
I can't absolve myself of guilt / Oleg T. Bogomolov --
Elite privileges / Boris Yeltsin --
Democratic platform program of the CPSU, Statement of June 1, 1990 --
pt. 4. The economy --
Is Soviet socialism reformable? / Ed A. Hewett --
Beyond perestroyka : the Soviet economy in crisis --
The effort collapses / Marshall Goldman --
pt. 5. Nationalities and federation --
State, civil society and ethnic cultural consolidation in the USSR : roots of the national question / Ronald G. Suny --
Gorbachev's nationalities problem / Gail W. Lapidus --
Dilemmas of Russian nationalism / Roman Szporluk --
The Russian question : in search of an answer (a roundtable) --
Declarations of the state sovereignty of the Russian and Ukrainian republics --
Speech to the Russian Federation Congress of People's Deputies, Moscow, May 22, 1990 / Boris Yeltsin --
The national dimension / Giulietto Chiesa with Douglas T. Northrop --
pt. 6. Foreign and security policy --
The revolution in Soviet foreign policy / Robert Legvold --
East-West : the problem of deideologizing relations / Georgii Shakhnazarov --
Address at the Forty-Third UN General Assembly Session, December 7, 1988 / Mikhail S. Gorbachev --
New thinking about world communism / Alexander Dallin --
Gorbachev and German unification : revision of thinking, realignment of power / Hannes Adomeit --
The USSR and the Third World in the 1980's / David E. Albright --
Soviet national security under Gorbachev / Bruce Parrott --
State, society, and the military under Gorbachev / David Holloway --
The architects of card houses / Yuri Katasonov --
pt. 7. From coup to collapse --
Speech to the Congress of People's Deputies, December 20, 1990 / Edvard Shevardnadze --
Top-secret KGB memorandum to the President of the USSR / Vladimir Kryuchkov --
An open letter to the people, July 23, 1991 / Yury Bondarev et al. --
Interview with Aleksandr Yakovlev, August 16, 1991 / Oleg Moroz --
A coup chronology / Editors of Current Digest of the Soviet Press --
Anatomy of a failed coup / John B. Dunlop --
The coup revisited / Gavriil Popov --
Speech to the RSFSR Congress of People's Deputies and to the citizens of Russia, October 28, 1991 / Boris Yeltsin --
Agreement on the creation of a Commonwealth of Independent States / Stanislau Shushkevich, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk --
The Alma-Ata Declaration / A. Mutalibov et al. --
Resignation speech, December 25, 1991 / Mikhail S. Gorbachev --
pt. 8. Reflections --
To the Stalin mausoleum / "Z" (Martin Malia) --
Causes of the collapse of the USSR / Alexander Dallin --
Who won the Cold War? / Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry --
The "shadows" come to light / Edvard Shevardnadze --
Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin / Yegor Ligachev --
Conclusion / Gail W. Lapidus and Alexander Dallin.
Other Titles: Soviet system in crisis.
Responsibility: edited by Alexander Dallin, Gail W. Lapidus.
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Published originally as "The Soviet System in Crisis - a Reader of Western and Soviet Views", this revised edition offers a discussion of the transformation of communism under Gorbachev and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. A wide variety of views is represented.

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