A new time of troubles? / James H. Billington. The revolutionary process / Robert V. Daniels -- The democratic vision / Andrei Sakharov -- Generations of leadership / Seweryn Bialer -- The old regime in crisis / Tatiana Zaslavskaya -- The succession and reform / Archie Brown -- The revolutionary promise / Mikhail Gorbachev -- Market socialism / Abel Aganbegyan -- Glasnost / Walter Laqueur -- Ferment among the minorities / Paul Goble -- The conservative reaction / Nina Andreyeva -- The rule of law / Robert Sharlet -- The democratic experiment / Michael E. Urban -- The Congress of People's Deputies / Giulietto Chiesa -- The renaissance of Boris Yeltsin / John Morrison and Boris Yeltsin -- The economic impasse / Anders Åslund -- The radical alternative / Stanislav Shatalin -- The minorities' struggle for sovereignty / Stephen White -- Patching up the union : documents from Pravda and Izvestiya -- The party tries to change : draft program of the CPSU -- The August coup / Martin Sixsmith -- The breakup of the Communist Party / John Miller and J.L. Black -- The collapse of the planned economy / Peter Rutland and Marek Dabrowski -- The triumph of self-determination / Hélène Carrère D'Encausse -- The end of the USSR -- Revolutionary self-destruction / Charles H. Fairbanks -- Reform or revolution? / Thomas F. Remington -- The transition to capitalism / Alexander Rubtsov -- The fate of the working class / Elizabeth Teague -- Prospects for democracy : roundtable -- A new time of troubles? / James H. Billington.
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