Perestroika-Era Politics : The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms Book

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: The New Soviet Legislature: How Ideas and Institutions Matter	3
	The New Legal Framework
2	The Path of Constitutional Reform in the USSR	17
3	Electoral Reform	33
4	The New Soviet Legislative Branch	51
	The Formation of New Parties and Political Groupings
5	Gorbachev's Reforms and the Factionalization of Soviet Politics: Can the New System Cope with Pluralism?	79
6	The Challenge to Soviet Democracy from the Political Right	105
7	Party Formation and Deformation on Russia's Democratic Left	129
	The Functioning of the New Supreme Soviet
8	Legislative-Executive Relations in the New Soviet Political Order	153
9	Parliamentary Government in the USSR	175
10	Soviet Defense and Foreign Policy and the Supreme Soviet	205
	Index	239
	About the Contributors	245