Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index.
Contents
Reformer in office / Betty Glad and Eric Shiraev -- Profile of Mikhail Gorbachev : psychological and sociological underpinnings / Betty Glad and Eric Shiraev -- Eduard Shevardnadze : leading the Soviet Union out of the Cold War / Melvin Goodman and Carolyn Ekedahl -- Yeltsin and the new political [dis]order / Betty Glad -- Nation building and the Russian Federation / Carol Barner-Barry -- New nomenclature and increasing income inequality / Eric Shiraev -- Old corruption in the New Russia / Brian Kuns -- Psychological dimension of transition : a stage model / Gordon B. Smith -- Attitudinal changes during the transition / Eric Shiraev -- Generational adaptations to the transition / Eric Shiraev and Betty Glad -- Attitudes toward political parties / Olga Mitina and Vladimir Petrenko -- Gender roles and political transformations / Eric Shiraev -- Pop music as a mirror of the Russian transformation / Eric Shiraev and Sergei Danilov -- Post Soviet orientations toward the United States and the West / Eric Shiraev -- Russia's open-ended transition : toward an integrated research model / Andrei Melville.