The Soviet System: From Crisis to Collapse Book

	Preface to the Revised Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
	List of Credits
1	The Setting: An Introduction	1
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
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
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	288
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
27	Is Soviet Socialism Reformable?	311
28	Beyond Perestroyka: The Soviet Economy in Crisis	322
29	The Effort Collapses	337
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
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
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, Editors of Current Digest of the Soviet Press	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
57	To the Stalin Mausoleum, "Z"	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