After Gorbachev

Klappentext this new edition of Stephen Whites best-selling introductory text has been revised throughout and now examines the full cycle of this period of revolutionary change from its Brezhnevite origins to postcommunist disintegration. Zusammenfassung Fourth time around for bestselling text on collapse of Soviet communism. New chapter takes story up to Yeltsin's referendum victory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. From Brezhnev to Gorbachev; 2. Democratising the political system; 3. Glasnost and public life; 4. Reforming the planned economy; 5. The Soviet multinational state; 6. The Soviet Union and the wider world; 7. Gorbachev and the politics of perestroika; 8. Towards a new Russia?

Product details

• Authors: Stephen White, Stephen (University of Glasgow) White
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.1993
• EAN: 9780521458962
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45896-2
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Cambridge Russian Paperbacks; Cambridge Russian Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education