The Soviet System In Crisis

This book brings together Western analyses, as well as Soviet documents and commentary, dealing with developments in the USSR's politics, economy, society, culture, and foreign policy since 1985 and the ineffective response of the leadership to the succession of ethnic conflicts and crises.

"Alexander Dallinis Raymond Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University.
Gail W. Lapidusis professor of political science at the University of California-Berkeley and chair of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies."