Problems of Restructuring Soviet Society

Problems of Restructuring Soviet Society THE interest among US policy makers and academics in Soviet affairs has increased tremendously in the recent years and more so with the coming of Mikhail Gorbachev to power. An evidence to this is that the US Department of State organised a conference on Soviet Society in the autumn of 1986 to assess the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the second year of Gorbachev administration and to gauge the prospects of alternative policies and developments. The book under review is a collection of papers presented at this conference by US specialists and by a few emigres from the USSR.