Author: William Butler
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: law, international, perestroika
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1990-01-31
List price: $192.50
ISBN-10: 0792304837
ISBN-13: 9780792304838

Author: Peter J Boettke
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: failed, perestroika
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1993-02-19
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0415085144
ISBN-13: 9780415085144

Why Perestroika Failed is the first study to apply an Austrian market process approach to analyze the economic dimensions of the Soviet system and a public choice approach to address the political aspects. Peter Boettke argues that the failure of perestroika was inevitable because its reforms were not based on a sound understanding of market and political processes. The book presents a critical assessment of the reform movement, examining the various proposals and paradoxes of the Soviet efforts at reform.

Author: Marshall I. Goldman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: updated, perestroika, wrong
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 1992-08-17
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0393309045
ISBN-13: 9780393309041

"Once again, Marshall Goldman has put his finger directly on the problems that hamper reform in the Soviet Union. Anyone who wants to understand Gorbachev’s failings, the bureaucratic infighting and built-in reluctance to change will gain insights from this taut, readable book."—Hedrik SmithA critical analysis of the economic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, which claims that the Soviet leader did little to counter the nation’s overindulgence in heavy industry or to combat a burgeoning budget deficit. The resultant economic collapse, it is argued, led to political disintegrati

Author: Tamar Horowitz
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: israel, perestroika, children
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-02-18
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0761813144
ISBN-13: 9780761813149

Children of Perestroika in Israel explores the absorption processes of adolescents from the former Soviet Union into Israeli society. The writers examine the phenomenon from a personal perspective, dealing with values, self confidence, achievement motivation, and the ability to cope with the situation; from a family perspective, discussing family structure and functioning. They present a societal perspective, viewing public opinion toward new immigrants, educational policies, and acceptance of the new immigrants by the Israeli youth. Finally, they assess the outcomes of integration through aca

Author: Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Publisher: Harpercollins
Keywords: world, country, thinking, new, perestroika
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 1987-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0060390859
ISBN-13: 9780060390853

It has been almost twenty years since this book was written and shortly after that, the Soviet Union fell apart. That political entity known as the Soviet Block suddenly was no more, going out more with a soft pop than anything approaching a bang. There are those who believe that the collapse of the Soviet Union was inevitable, they cite technological advancement and the superiority of the capitalist system as the root causes. All that is true, but as we saw when several of the hard-line communists tried to stage a coup, the collapse of the Soviet Union could have been very bloody. For

Authors:Alfred J. Rieber, Alvin Z. Rubinstein,
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: crossroads, perestroika
Number of Pages: 387
Published: 1991-04
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 087332742X
ISBN-13: 9780873327428

The contributors to this volume have undertaken an assessment of the Soviet Union as it enters the last decade of the 20th century. Organized to cover each major area of policy initiative (or response), the collection surveys the Gorbachev reform agenda and its successes and failures to date in various fields, including culture, economics, ideology, law, politics, federalism and the nationality problem, and foreign policy vis-a-vis the West, Eastern Europe and the Third World.

Author: Boris Kagarlitsky
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: chronicle, soviet, perestroika, farewell
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 1990-09
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0860915085
ISBN-13: 9780860915089

In this dramatic, month-by-month chronicle of a tumultuous period, Boris Kagarlitsky bears witness to the eruption of open political discussion in the Soviet Union during the ’hot summer’ of 1988. As a leading member of the Moscow Popular Front, Kagarlitsky and his associates sought to extend the debate and agitation throughout society as a whole. From the striking coalfields if Siberia and the human chain protests of the Baltic republics to the rallies of the fascist Pamyat and the burgeoning of a Soviet environmental movement, Kagarlitsky listens to and analyses a nation in turmo