The issue of continuity and change in ideology and political culture although seemingly at
some remove from the everyday world of political decision making, is of critical importance …

The collapse of the Soviet Union has spurred much scholarly debate about the reasons for
the rapid disintegration of this apparently entrenched system. In this article, it is argued that …

In the beginning the demonstrators in Erevan flew, not the provocative tricolor of the
shortlived independent republic, but the red flag with blue stripe of Soviet Armenia. They …

This book offers an analysis of the character and impact of ideological change, addresses a
different arena of Soviet policy or social life, and reflects somewhat different concerns about …

Western analyses of the contemporary Soviet scene frequently portray Mikhail Gorbachev as
but the latest in a long line of reforming tsar-autocrats, from Peter the Great to Iosif Stalin …

I n ittle more than a year since taking office as general secretary of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev has added a vigorous …

WESTERN ANALYSTS are, for all their differences, broadly agreed in their evaluation of
perestroikaas a political phenomenon, seeing its changes as neither cosmetic nor, despite …

Glasnost'has demonstrated the continuing power of the word in Russia. From the
leadership's standpoint, glasnost'is a principal fulcrum in a massive effort at social …

In the fall of 1987, the Soviet Union had become the most interesting country in the world.
What is happening there is nothing less than a gigantic ex periment, now only in its infancy …

From the beginning of Mikhail Gorbachev's rule, Western specialists have been deeply
divided about the prospects of state-led change in the Soviet Union. This chapter argues that …