Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka

Ed A. Hewett; Victor H. Winston

doi:10.5771/9780815719144

Summary

The momentous changes in the Soviet Union brought about by glasnost' and perestroyka have far-reaching implications that continue to grip the attention of the international community. This volume and its companion volume, The Economy, feature research and analysis of the significant events in the development of the revolutionary reforms in the Soviet Unionfrom the beginning stage, through the period of great euphoria, to the recent troubled times. Ed A. Hewitt, founding editor of Soviet Economy and formerly a senior fellow at Brookings, is now Special Assistant to the President on National Security Affairs and Senior Director of Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council. Victor H. Winston is an adjunct professor of international affairs at George Mason University and coeditor of Soviet Economy.

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Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8157-3623-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8157-1914-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 568
Product type: Edited Book

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1. The Early Years of the Gorbachev Era: An Introduction No access
2. 1. Before the Succession No access
  2. The Emerging Change No access
  3. The Soviet Union and the West No access
  4. Doing Business with Gorbachev No access
  5. References No access
3. 1. The Accident No access
  2. Official Reaction No access
  3. Evacuation and Contamination No access
  4. Political Repercussions and Reverberations No access
  5. References No access
4. 1. The First Post-Stalin Social Contract No access
  2. "De-Alignment" No access
  3. Gorbachev's Program No access
  4. Institutionalizing the New Order No access
  5. Conclusions No access
  6. References No access
5. 1. The Gorbachev Record No access
  2. What Is There to Explain? No access
  3. Levels of Analysis No access
  4. Level I: The Top Leader No access
  5. Level II: The Political Leadership No access
  6. Level III: The Bureaucracy No access
  7. Level IV: The Knowledge Specialists No access
  8. Level V: The Population No access
  9. Looking Forward No access
  10. References No access
6. 1. Social Transformation No access
  2. New Social Groups No access
  3. Shifting Authority Relations No access
  4. Policy Consequences: Can Gorbachev Catch Up? No access
  5. References No access
1. The Politics and Adversities of Change: An Introduction No access
2. 1. The Elections No access
  2. Compromises on the Agenda No access
  3. Opponents of Perestroyka No access
  4. Basic Themes of the Conference No access
  5. Concluding Comments No access
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3. 1. Identifying What Is Important No access
  2. What Was Accomplished No access
  3. Interpreting the Results No access
  4. References No access
4. 1. The Political Alternatives and Conceptions No access
  2. The Radical Perestroyka No access
  3. The Politics of Constitutional Change No access
  4. The Survival of Perestroyka No access
  5. American Perceptions of Perestroyka No access
  6. Concluding Comments No access
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5. 1. The Tradition of the " Thick Journal" No access
  2. Russian Nationalism in Novvy Mir and Molodaya Gvardiya, 1956–1970 No access
  3. Nash Sovremennik, 1970–1985 No access
  4. Nash Sovremennik and Molodaya Gvardiya under Gorbachev No access
  5. Popularity of Russian Nationalist Appeal No access
  6. References No access
6. 1. Six Varieties of National Self-Assertion No access
  2. Emerging Policy Debates No access
  3. "New Political Thinking" on National Relations No access
  4. Our Common Home: Restructuring the Federal System No access
  5. The Economics of Federalism: Republic Economic Sovereignty No access
  6. Language Policy No access
  7. Nationality and the Soviet Armed Forces No access
  8. National Minorities: The Revenge of Otto Bauer No access
  9. The Problem of Party Fragmentation No access
  10. Power and Politics No access
  11. The Central Committee Plenum No access
  12. Concluding Remarks No access
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1. The Stirrings of Democratization: An Introduction No access
2. 1. How Gorbachev Consolidated Power No access
  2. The Elections to the Congress of People's Deputies No access
  3. The Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet No access
  4. A Threat from the Left? No access
  5. Gorbachev's Calculations No access
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3. 1. Soviet Industrial Relations before Perestroyka No access
  2. Background of the Coal Miners' Strikes No access
  3. The Events of July 1989 No access
  4. The Aftermath of the Strikes No access
  5. Preliminary Assessment No access
  6. Four Scenarios for the Future No access
  7. Concluding Comments No access
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4. 1. Formal Organization of Nominations and Campaigning No access
  2. Voting and Winning No access
  3. The Candidates No access
  4. The Party That Wasn't No access
  5. Thunder on the Left No access
  6. The Spoiler Slates No access
  7. The Voters Speak No access
  8. The Correlates of Success No access
  9. Conclusions No access
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1. Mikhail Gorbachev as Leader: An Introduction No access
2. 1. The Normative versus the Analytic No access
  2. Establishing Baselines for Evaluation No access
  3. Gorbachev: Event-Making Man? No access
  4. Missed Opportunities? No access
  5. Transformational Leadership No access
  6. Gorbachev as Transformational Leader No access
  7. Transitions to Democracy No access
  8. Gorbachev's Contribution: Tragic or Transformational? No access
  9. Conclusion: In Praise of Gorbachev's Leadership Strategy No access
  10. Afterword: The 28th Congress of the CPSU No access
  11. References No access
3. 1. Gorbachev in Historical Perspective No access
  2. Gorbachev's Vision: A Critical Appraisal No access
  3. A Comment on Migranyan No access
  4. Gorbachev's Evaporating Support No access
  5. Mounting Pressures from the Right No access
  6. The Uneasy Left No access
  7. Gorbachev's Options No access
  8. Concluding Note No access
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4. 1. Pressure from the "Right" No access
  2. The Challenge from the "Left" No access
  3. Gorbachev's Politics No access
  4. Modernization or Transformation No access
  5. Institutional Innovation No access
  6. New Complexities No access
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5. 1. The Collapse of Authority No access
  2. Gorbachev's Options No access
  3. References No access
6. 1. Recognizing the Existence of Politics No access
  2. The Consolidation of Power No access
  3. Changing the Mechanisms of Power No access
  4. 1917 or 1929? No access
  5. The Young and the Military No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. References No access
7. 1. Jerry Hough's Critique No access
  2. The State of the Art No access
  3. Gorbachev's Values and Strategy No access
  4. On the Effectiveness of Gorbachev's Strategy No access
  5. On the Use of Comparative Analysis No access
  6. On Leadership Evaluation No access
  7. Conclusion No access
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Chronology of Events, March 11, 1985–July 11, 1991 No access Pages 499 - 536
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