Table of Contents: “…Khrushchev's Thaw: Selective Destalinization -- 3. Glasnost and the Reemergence of the Stalin Question -- 4. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The Second Emigration and Diaspora 1945-90 -- 8. The Era of Glasnost 1987-90.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Musical ways of bearing witness -- Music of disruption : collage and fragmentation as an expression of trauma in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for piano and strings -- Hammering hands : Galina Ustvolskaya's Piano sonata no. 6 and a hermeneutic of pain -- Witnessing history during glasnost : Arvo Pärt's Tabula rasa and musical testimony in Tengiz Abuladze's Repentance -- Music, mourning and war : Henryk Górecki's Third symphony and the politics of remembering -- Epilogue.…”

Table of Contents: “…List of tables -- Introduction -- Topics in the 1980s: from Soviet hegemonism to Gorbachev's new thinking -- The 1990s changing views on Gorbachev's foreign policy and the use of Lenin after Tiananmen -- The 1980s Chinese perceptions of Lenin's Socialism and Gorbachev's Glasnost -- The misuse of Gorbachev after Tiananmen and the 1990s debate about the two Soviet leaders -- Chinese perceptions of the nationality politics of Lenin and Gorbachev -- The post-1991 learning -- Chinese Sovietology and post-Mao state policies -- Bibliography.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Reconstructing Soviet childhood -- Glasnost, perestroika, and taking off the tie -- High school in the Russian Federation -- Other options : class actions and ethnic articulations -- pt. 3. …”

Table of Contents: “…The Revolution, 1917-1919 -- The Civil War, 1919-1921 -- The new economic policy, 1921-1926 -- Stalin consolidates power, 1926-1927 -- The first five-year plan, 1928-1932 -- The second five-year plan and the Great Terror, 1933-1938 -- The Great Patriotic War, 1939-1945 -- The Cold War begins, 1946-1953 -- The so-called Thaw and refrigeration, 1954-1963 -- Innovation within stagnation, 1964-1984 -- Glasnost' and Perestroika, 1985-1992.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : women and perestroika / Mary Buckley -- The industrial labour force / Judith Shapiro -- Women and agricultural reform / Sue Bridger -- Political reform / Mary Buckley -- New women's organisations / Ol'ga Lipovskaia -- Between feminism and nationalism : new women's groups in the Ukraine / Solomea Pavlychko -- The zhensovety revisited / Genia Browning -- The new women's studies / Natal'ia Rimashevskaia -- 'Cuckoo-mothers' and 'apparatchiks' : glasnost and children's homes / Elizabeth Waters -- Going out in 'style' : girls in youth cultural activity / Hilary Pilkington -- Gynoglasnost : writing the feminine / Barbara Heldt…”

Table of Contents: “…Africa -- Anglo-American relations -- Antinuclear movement -- Antiwar movement -- Arms control -- China policy -- Cold War conclusion -- Congress and foreign policy -- Cuba -- Cuban missile crisis -- Decolonization -- Democracy imperiled -- Diem -- France -- Glasnost and perestrokia -- Gorbachev -- Hiss -- Hungary -- JFK and LBJ -- Korean War -- McCarthyism -- Middle east -- Military balance -- Monolithic communism -- National liberation -- Nicaragua -- Nixon and Kissinger -- Ostpolitik -- Power vacuum -- Reagan doctrine -- Reagan's transformation -- Reagan's victory -- Soviet empire -- Stalin -- Team B -- Third World -- Tito -- War powers resoultion.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Business and Human Rights -- New approaches -- A New Glasnost for Global Sustainability -- Tools for the Transition to Sustainability -- ‘Factor Four’ and Sustainable Development in the Age of Globalization -- Ecological Footprint Accounting—Comparing Earth's Biological Capacity with an Economy's Resource Demand -- Advancing Sustainable Development and its Implementation Through Spatial Planning -- Sustainability is Dead—Long Live Sustainability.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Intellectuals Live in the Chosen Land: Gorbachev's GlasnostConclusion; References; Name Index; Subject Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Murphy -- "A republic, if you can keep it" : liberty and public life in the age of glasnost / James W. Carey…”

Table of Contents: “…the precarious sexual position of women in postemancipation Ukrainian peasant society -- Peasant women and their work -- Razdel : the peasant family divided -- Litigious daughter-in-law : family relations in rural Russia in the second half of the Nineteenth Century -- Childbirth and culture -- To save oneself : Russian peasant women and the development of women's religious communities in prerevolutionary Russia -- Village women experience the revolution -- Rural women and the law -- Bab'i bunty and peasant women's protest during collectivization -- Women in the Soviet countryside on the eve of World War II, 1935-1940 -- Role of women in Soviet agriculture -- Soviet rural women -- Rural women and glasnost…”

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; PREFACE; SELECT CHRONOLOGY; MAP OF MAGNITOGORSK; 1 The Steel Cage: The Politics of Economic Restructuring; 2 Glasnost: A City Newspaper Rises, a Theater Declines; 3 Squaring the Circle: Reform of and by the Communist Party; Photographs; 4 "Is Life Going to Go on like This Forever?" …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : with dreams begin responsibilities -- Decolonization, de-Stalinization, and development -- Ayni's children : the making of a Tajik professional elite after Stalin -- The object of development : Central Asian social scientists and the meaning of equality, prosperity, and progress -- The hiding hand : planning, improvization, and the building of the Nurek Dam -- City you can write about : internationalism, social welfare, and urban utopia in Nurek -- Shepherds into builders : making the new Tajik man and woman -- Tractors, power lines, and the welfare state : the contradictions of the cotton economy and technological innovation -- A torch lighting the way to progress and civilization : Soviet Central Asia as a model of development -- Rethinking development in the era of glasnost : environmentalism, nationalism, and protest -- Conclusion : a dream deferred.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Young women and perestroika / Sue Bridger -- Glasnost and the woman question / Mary Buckley…”

Table of Contents: “…Rieber -- The neo-Leninist temptation : Gorbachevism and the party intelligentsia / Vladimir Tismaneanu -- Russian literature from the thaw to Glasnost / Helen Segall -- Developments in local Soviet politics / Jeffrey W. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Preface; 1-Youth; 2-War; 3-Khrushchev's Speech; 4-Columbia University; 5-Trouble; 6-Canada; 7-Back Home; 8-The December 1985 Memorandum; 9-Relations with Gorbachev; 10-Glasnost'; 11-Need of a Fundamental Break; 12-Role in Foreign Policy; 13-The 1939 Secret Protocol; 14-Attitude toward the United States; 15-Advocating Presidency; 16-Accusations of Treason; 17-Bolshevik Crimes; 18-The Dissolution of the Soviet Union; 19-Private Life; 20-The August 1991 Coup; 21-Yakovlev's Final Thoughts about Russia and Russians; 22-Death; Document 1; Document 2; Acknowledgments; Illustrations…”
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Table of Contents: “….' -- Boyhood -- Toward the twentieth century: from ancient optics to relativity theory -- Natura facit saltum: the roots of quantum physics -- Student days -- In which Bohr goes to England for postdoctoral research -- Bohr, father of the atom -- How Bohr secured his permanent base of operations -- 'It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair' -- Bohr and Einstein -- 'A modern Viking who comes on a great errand' -- 'Then the whole picture changes completely': the discovery of quantum mechanics -- The spirit of Copenhagen -- Looking into the atomic nucleus -- Toward the edge of physics in the Bohr style, and a bit beyond -- How Bohr orchestrated experimental progress in the 1930s, in physics and in biology -- Of sad events and of major journeys -- 'We are suspended in language' -- Fission -- Bohr, pioneer of 'glasnost' -- In which Bohr moves full stream into his later years.…”
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