Author: Dan Piraro
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: bizarro, glasnost
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 1990-03-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0877016933
ISBN-13: 9780877016939

With legions of fans being drawn to its inimitable style, Bizarro has become one of the country’s fastest-growing syndicated cartoon panels since its launching in 1985. In this new collection, his fourth to date, Dan Piraro once again demonstrates an uncanny talent for making wildly startling situations even more extravagant. Notorious for his provocative and elaborately executed drawing style, Piraro is like a curious, mischievous child, lifting rocks and peeking around corners to reveal the secrets of the universe as he perceives them. It’s a crazy, improbable world, and Glasnost

Author: Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: mind, totalitarian, post, glasnost
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 1992-04-15
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0226300986
ISBN-13: 9780226300986

"Beyond Glasnost is a thoughtful exploration of the past decade’s cultural and political ferment in Eastern Europe. It is also something else: an argument—in a deceptively unassuming, anti-ideological voice—about how to conceive of and move toward freedom; an argument that could hardly be more relevant to the roiling debates on the Western left."—Ellen Willis, Village Voice

Authors:Ed A. Hewett, Victor H. Winston,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: economy, perestroyka, glasnost, milestones
Number of Pages: 522
Published: 1991-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815736215
ISBN-13: 9780815736219

Contains articles, drawn largely from the journal "Soviet Economy", which chronicle and analyze significant events in the development of the revolutionary reforms in the Soviet Union. This book, part of a two-book set, focuses on the economy of the Soviet Union.

Author: Brian McNair
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: communication, society, media, soviet, perestroika, glasnost
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1991-08-06
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0415035511
ISBN-13: 9780415035514

Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media examines the implications of recent reforms for the Soviet news and television media. It traces the development of Soviet journalism through the writings of Marx and Lenin, the distortions of Stalin and Brezhnev, and the reforms of the Gorbachev era, culminating in the new press law, which provides greater freedom of the press and freedom of information.

Author: David T. Twining
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: contributions, military, studies, issues, security, soviet, reform, glasnost
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1992-08-30
List price: $103.95
ISBN-10: 0313284733
ISBN-13: 9780313284731

Twining and his colleagues look at the impact of glasnost and the collapse of the Soviet system on the military. The case study approach used allows for in-depth examination of a number of key issues, ranging from the role of women in the Soviet armed forces to the rule of law to Sino-Soviet military rapproachment are examined. In a concluding chapter, Twining offers a broad theoretical overview that places the Soviet difficulties in the context of governance problems that affect developed countries in general.

Author: Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: empire, glasnost
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 1988-12-30
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0929849000
ISBN-13: 9780929849003

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Studies are timely, concise analyses of important issues and developments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. They are prepared by scholars and researchers at RFE/RL headquarters in Munich, West Germany-one of the largest centers in the West for research on Soviet/East European affairs. This book focuses on the Soviet nationality issue. Experts in the field of Soviet Studies these, previously published contributors include S. Enders Wimbush, Elizabeth Teague, Bohdan Nahaylo, T.H. Ives and Iain Elliot. Contents: How High is the National Question on Gorbachev&

Author: Helsinki Watch
Publisher: Helsinki Watch
Keywords: watch, report, helsinki, rights, jeopardy, human, glasnost
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1991-04
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0929692896
ISBN-13: 9780929692890