| Contents |
Introduction / Edgar M. Bronfman -- Part one : Patterns of change -- The changing nature of change in the USSR / S. Frederick Starr -- Sources of change in Soviet history : state, society, and the entrepreneurial tradition / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Part two : Russia after Stalin -- The Soviet economic model / Robert Campbell -- War, weapons, and Soviet foreign policy / Robert Legvold -- Human rights : a thaw imperiled / Robert Cullen -- Part three : Gorbachev's Russia -- Gorbachev and the politics of system renewal / Timothy J. Colton -- The crisis in the Soviet system of power and Mikhail Gorbachev's political strategy / Thane Gustafson -- Gorbachev's program of change : sources, significance, prospects / Seweryn Bialer -- Part four : Russia and the West -- The evolution of U.S. policy goals toward the USSR in the postwar era / John Gaddis -- Western influence on the Soviet Union / Michael Mandelbaum -- Part five : Gorbachev and the United States -- Gorbachev's Russia and U.S. options / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- U.S. policy and Gorbachev's Russia / William H. Luers -- East-West relations / William G. Hyland -- The Soviet Union and the West : security and foreign policy / Seweryn Bialer. |
