Contributor
Winters, Paul A., 1965-
Imprint:San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c1999.
Description288 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Note:The Death of the "old guard" / Seweryn Bialer. - Confrontation with the west / Richard V. Allen. - Economic stagnation / Leonard Silk. - The Chernobyl disaster / Sergei Roy. - Unmet economic expectations under Gorbachev / S. Frederick Starr. - The Rise of Gorbachev: Perestroika and Glasnot / Richard Pipes. - Cooperation with the west / Stephen Sestanovich. - Cultural ferment / Geoffrey Hosking. - Retreat from Afghanistan / Anthony Arnold. - Revolutions in Eastern Europe / Coit D. Blacker. - Growing autonomy for the republics / Martha Brill Olcott. - Popular elections for the Russian Parliament / Martin Malia. - The Fall of the Berlin Wall / Timothy Garton Ash. - The August 1991 coup / Michael Mandelbaum. - A Disillusioned military / Gabriel Schoenfeld. - The Emergence of Boris Yeltsin / Martin Malia. - Votes ofr independence in the republics: Ukraine / Robert Cullen. - War in Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia versus Azerbaijan / Arif Yunusov. - Independence for Russian minorities: war in Chechnya / Vera Tolz. - Instability in Georgia / Ken Gluck. - Russia and the former republics / Robert Cullen.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-282) and index.
