The Soviet System: From Crisis to Collapse

Table of contents

• The Soviet System *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Preface to the Revised Edition ix
• Preface to the First Edition xi
• Credits xiii
• 1 - The Setting: an Introduction 1
• Part 1 - The Roots of Perestroika 9
• 2 - A Usable Past 11
• 3 - The Communist System 16
• 4 - Domestic and International Factors in the Formation of Gorbachev's Reforms 28
• 5 - Politics before Gorbachev: De-Stalinization and the Roots of Reform 37
• 6 - The Friends and Foes of Change: Reformism and Conservatism in the Soviet Union 57
• 7 - Letter to the Soviet Leaders, March 19, 1970 75
• 8 - The Pioneers of Perestroika: Back to the Intellectual Roots of Soviet Reforms 81
• Part 2 - Reform and the Political and Social System 89
• 9 - The Beginnings of Independent Political Activity 91
• 10 - Political Change in the Soviet Union 111
• 11 - State and Society: toward the Emergence of Civil Society in the Soviet Union 125
• 12 - The Emergence of Independent Associations and the Transformation of Russian Political Society 147
• 13 - Evaluating Gorbachev as Leader 160
• 14 - The Quality of Gorbachev's Leadership 190
• 15 - Gorbachev's Endgame 201
• Part 3 - Soviet Political Debates 223
• 16 - Glasnost' and Soviet Culture 225
• 17 - Politics and History under Gorbachev 242
• 18 - Advances and Debts 261
• 19 - Sources 271
• 20 - Are Our Principles Any Good? 280
• 21 - Speech at the Conference of the Aktiv of the Khabarovsk Territory Party Organization, July 31, 1986 284
• 22 - I Cannot Forgo My Principles *
• 23 - The Tragedy of Centralism 296
• 24 - I Can't Absolve Myself of Guilt 301
• 25 - Elite Privileges 303
• 26 - Democratic Platform Program of the Cpsu, Statement of June 1, 1990 306
• Part 4 - The Economy 309
• 27 - Is Soviet Socialism Reformable? 311
• 28 - Beyond Perestroyka: the Soviet Economy in Crisis 322
• 29 - The Effort Collapses 337
• Part 5 - Nationalities and Federation 349
• 30 - State, Civil Society and Ethnic Cultural Consolidation in the USSR: Roots of the National Question 351
• 31 - Gorbachev's Nationalities Problem 365
• 32 - Dilemmas of Russian Nationalism 376
• 33 - The Russian Question: in Search of an Answer (A Roundtable) 398
• 34 - Declarations of the State Sovereignty of the Russian and Ukrainian Republics 403
• 35 - Speech to the Russian Federation Congress of People's Deputies, Moscow, May 22, 1990 410
• 36 - The National Dimension 413
• Part 6 - Foreign and Security Policy 419
• 37 - The Revolution in Soviet Foreign Policy 421
• 38 - East-West: the Problem of Deideologizing Relations 432
• 39 - Address at the Forty-Third Un General Assembly Session, December 7, 1988 442
• 40 - New Thinking about World Communism 454
• 41 - Gorbachev and German Unification: Revision of Thinking, Realignment of Power 465
• 42 - The USSR and the Third World in the 1980's 492
• 43 - Soviet National Security under Gorbachev 503
• 44 - State, Society, and the Military under Gorbachev 544
• 45 - The Architects of Card Houses 560
• Part 7 - From Coup to Collapse 565
• 46 - Speech to the Congress of People's Deputies, December 20, 1990 567
• 47 - Top-Secret KGB Memorandum to the President of the USSR 569
• 48 - An Open Letter to the People, July 23, 1991 574
• 49 - Interview with Aleksandr Yakovlev, August 16, 1991 578
• 50 - A Coup Chronology 582
• 51 - Anatomy of a Failed Coup 595
• 52 - The Coup Revisited 622
• 53 - Speech to the Rsfsr Congress of People's Deputies and to the Citizens of Russia, October 28, 1991 632
• 54 - Agreement on the Creation of a Commonwealth of Independent States 638
• 55 - The Alma-Ata Declaration 642
• 56 - Resignation Speech, December 25, 1991 644
• Part 8 - Reflections 647
• 57 - To the Stalin Mausoleum 649
• 58 - Causes of the Collapse of the USSR 673
• 59 - Who Won the Cold War? 695
• 60 - The "Shadows" Come to Light 700
• 61 - Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin 706
• 62 - Conclusion 718
• About the Book and Editors 725

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