Chronicle of a Revolution: a Western-Soviet Inquiry into Perestroïka PDF
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O VO LUT E I library ROY MEDVEDEV the painful path to the truth NATALYA IVANOVA B. poetry an^ glasnost GAVRIIL POPOV the p r i m a c^ of politics ARCHIE BROWN r u c t u r i n g the soviet political s y s t e m DAVID HOLLOWAY learning to I i^ e and let live edited by Digitized by tlie Internet Archive 2015 in littps://archive.org/details/clironicleofrevolOOroya CHRONICLE or A REVOLUTION [mronici! jiVOLUTK? A Western-Soviet Inquiry into Perestroika Abraham Brumberg EDITOR PANTHEON BOOKS NEW YORK Copyright (^Q990/by Abraham Brumberg All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Lim- ited, Toronto. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chronicle of a revolution a western-Soviet inquiry into perestroika. : Abraham Brumberg, editor. p. cm. ISBN 0-394-57706-X — — 1. Soviet Union Politics and government 1985— 2. Perestroika. Brumberg, Abraham. I. DK286.5.C48 1990 947.085'4—dc20 89-43242 Book Design by Robert Bull Design Manufactured in theUnited StatesofAmerica First Edition * CONTENTS Introduction: Leap into the Unknown 3 By Abraham Brumberg PART ONE: THE LAY OF THE LAND The Road to Reform 17 S. Frederick Starr Reconstructing the PoHtical System 30 Archie Brown An Economy in Transition 50 Alec Nove Towards the Rule of Law? 72 William E. Butler History Reclaimed 90 Jutta Scherrer Nationalities and Nationahsm 108 Ronald G. Suny Lyrics: The Pain ofDiscovery 129 Vera S. Dunham Learning to Live and Let Live 145 David Holloway PART TWO: FROM THE OTHER SHORE: Commentaries Towards a New Model of Socialism 163 Boris P. Kurashvili The Deep Roots of Our Problems 169 Otto Latsis V CONTENTS Perestroika and the Primacy of Politics 179 Gavriil Popov Legal Reforms and Basic Principles 188 Arkadi Vaksberg The Difficult and Painful Path to the Truth 194 Roy Medvedev The Rise of Ethnic Assertiveness 200 Julian Bromlei At a Fateful Fork in the Road 205 Leonid M. Batkin Poetry in the Age of Perestroika and Glasnost 213 Natalya B. Ivanova Old Problems, New Thinking 228 Yuri Davydov The USSR and the Third World 233 Sergo A. Mikoyan Notes 239 Contributors 255 Index 259 vi CHRONICLE OF A REVOLUTION
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