Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Gorbachev’s USSR

A System in Crisis

  • Book
  • © 1990

Overview

Editors:
  1. Uri Ra’anan

    1. Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy, Boston University, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Igor Lukes

    1. Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy, Boston University, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 44.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 59.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Overview: Is the Soviet Political System in Crisis?

    • William E. Odom
    Pages 1-21

  3. Is Sovietology in Crisis? Concepts and Methods of Analysis

    • Uri Ra’anan
    Pages 22-28

  4. The Soviet System: What Can Be Ascertained? (Inferences to be Drawn from US-USSR Negotiations)

    • Edward Rowny
    Pages 29-40

  5. Gorbachev’s Struggle and the Soviet Crisis

    • Harry Gelman
    Pages 41-67

  6. The Soviet Nationalities: Irrepressible Conflict?

    • Jeremy R. Azrael
    Pages 68-71

  7. Changes in the Decision-Making Apparat: Vsja vlast’ sovietam?

    • Igor Lukes
    Pages 72-94

  8. The Soviet Crisis and Foreign Policy Formation

    • Arkady Shevchenko
    Pages 95-101

  9. Soviet International Operations: Domestic Fallout?

    • R. Eugene Parta
    Pages 102-116

  10. The Impact of Gorbachev’s Perestroika and Interdependence on East European Allies

    • John P. Hardt
    Pages 117-131

  11. The Impact of Gorbachevshchina on United States Foreign Policy

    • Eugene V. Rostow
    Pages 132-145

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 147-154
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

A collection of papers presented at Boston University by leading Sovietologists evaluating the meaning of developments in the USSR and their impact since Gorbachev became head of government. The consensus is that the USSR is facing a systemic crisis, affecting ideology, leadership and economics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy, Boston University, USA

    Uri Ra’anan, Igor Lukes

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gorbachev’s USSR

  • Book Subtitle: A System in Crisis

  • Editors: Uri Ra’anan, Igor Lukes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11705-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Uri Ra’anan and Igor Lukes 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-11707-9Published: 01 January 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-11705-5Published: 18 June 1990

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 154

  • Topics: European History, Modern History, Political Theory, International Relations

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation