The Soviet system in crisis : a reader of Western and Soviet views /: a reader of Western and Soviet views. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alexander Dallin, Gail W. Lapidus.
• Other Names: Dallin, Alexander, 1924-2000; Lapidus, Gail Warshofsky
• Contents: The setting: an introduction / Alexander Dallin and Gail W. Lapidus -- A usable past / S. Frederick Starr -- The communist system / Richard Pipes -- Domestic and international factors in the formation of reform / Peter Hauslohner -- The friends and foes of change: reformism and soncervatism 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 -- A socialist pluralis of opinions: Glasnost and policy-making under Gorbachev / Thomas Remington -- Political change in the Soviet Union / Archie Brown -- State and society: toward the emergence of civil society in the Soviet Union / Gail W. Lapidus -- Voluntary associations in Gorbachev's reform program / Victoria E. Bonnell -- The emergence of Russian multiparty politics / Aleksandr Meerovich -- The workers' movement: a new stage / Leonid Gordon and Eduard Klopov. Evaluating Gorbachev as leader / George W. Breslauer -- The quality of Gorbachev's leadership / Peter Reddaway -- Gorbachev's endgame / Jerry F. Hugh -- 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 -- Address at the Forty-third U.N. General Assembly session, December 7, 1988 / Mikhail S. Gorbachev -- Speech to Russian Federation Congress of People's Deputies, Moscow, May 22, 1990 / Boris Yeltsin -- I cannot forgo my principles / Nina Andreyeva -- The tragedy of centralism / Aleksandr Prokhanov -- I can't absolve myself of guilt / Oleg T. Bogomolov -- The architects of card houses / Yuri Katasonov -- Is Soviet Socialism reformable? / Ed A. Hewett State, civil society and ethnic cultural consolidation in the U.S.S.R.: roots of the national question / Ronald G. Suny -- Gorbachev's nationalities problem / Gail W. Lapidus -- Dilemmas of Russian nationalism / Roman Szporluk -- Soviet Jewry in the Age of Perestroika / Zvi Gitelman -- The revolution in Soviet foreign policy / Robert Legvold -- East-West: the problem of deideologizing relations / Georgii Shakhnazarov -- The search for new East-West relations / Vyacheslav Dashechev -- Gorbachev and German unification: revision of thinking, realignment of power / Hannes Adomeit -- The U.S.S.R. 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 -- Thinking about the Soviet future / George W. Breslauer -- To the Stalin Mausoleum / Martin Malia -- Managing U.S.-Soviet relations in the 1990's / Abraham S. Becker and Arnold L. Horelick From points to pathways of mutual advantage: next steps in Soviet-American relations / James A. Baker III -- Speech to the Congress of People's Deputies, December 20, 1990 / Edvard Shevardnaze -- Speech to the Congress of People's Deputies, December 22, 1990 / Vladimir Kryuchkov -- Conclusion / Alexander Dallin and Gail W. Lapidus.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (711 pages)
• Subjects: 947.085/4; Perestroĭka; Perestroïka; Economic history; Perestroĭka; Politics and government; Kommunismus; Perestroika; Aufsatzsammlung; Perestrojka; Verval (geschiedenis); Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991; Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1985-1991; URSS -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1985-1991; URSS -- Conditions économiques -- 1985-1991; Soviet Union; Sowjetunion; Sowjetunion; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000305777; 1000305775
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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