"Papers submitted to a conference ... in Moscow in October 1990"--Foreword.
Contents
Soviet democracy movement : Society options and history / Anatoly Kovler -- Public movements: from protest to political self-consciousness / Vyacheslav Igrunov -- Emerging political institutions: from informals to multiparty democracy / Andrei Fadin --Pluralism and the future of reform / Anatoly Shostakovsky -- The decentralization of political power / Maxim Meyer -- The limits of market economics under soviet conditions / Vitaly Naishul -- Uniting political and economic reform / Anatoly Sobchak -- Reform or retrenchment : understanding the events of January 1991 / Simon Kordonsky -- The crisis of democratic ideas in the Soviet Union / Gleb Pavlovsky -- From perestroika to democracy? / Nina Belyaeva -- Western commentary : Soviet democracy and soviet history / Martin Malia -- Coping with newly unleashed social forces / George Weigel -- Democracy and governance / Larry Diamond -- The democratic prospect in the Soviet Union / Richard Schifter.
