The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State: And Other SurprisesAmerican Enterprise Institute, 1992 - 317 pages Articles and columns (most previously published) by the noted neo- conservative track changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and related issues in foreign policy as they have developed over the past five years. They will delight some, infuriate others, but bore none. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Sakharov and GorbachevA Challenge | 9 |
New Thinking in the Kremlin | 17 |
Four Questions about Gorbachevs Reforms 223 | 23 |
Crisis of Communism | 29 |
The New Styles of the New Bolsheviks | 36 |
The Limits of Pluralism under Perestroika | 43 |
Transforming Soviet Communism from Within | 51 |
The Logic of Freedom | 58 |
Europes Drift Away from the United States | 156 |
The Transformation of Europe | 163 |
Mutual Aid | 170 |
Introduction to Part Four | 177 |
Filling in the Blanks | 185 |
Beyond Profit in Angola | 193 |
Slandering Savimbi | 195 |
Many Threats Little Bread | 202 |
Gorbachev vs Lenin | 60 |
Can Communism Transform Itself? | 66 |
Bad Bargain in Poland | 72 |
Enough to Break an Old Bolsheviks Heart | 80 |
Bad News? Whats Bad about It? | 87 |
Does Action against Iraq Herald a New Age for the United | 94 |
Introduction to Part Two | 101 |
Russian Power | 109 |
Gorbachev at ReykjavikThe High Roller in the Haunted | 116 |
An Arms Deal We Should Refuse | 124 |
And Now Proximity Talks | 131 |
The American Approach to Foreign Affairs | 134 |
Introduction to Part Three | 141 |
Limited Partners in Europe | 149 |
Promises Promises II | 209 |
Is the Nicaraguan Government Ready to Comply with | 216 |
Their Style of Democracy | 224 |
Election Surprise | 230 |
The Suffering of a FatherPresident | 236 |
A Trap in El Salvador | 243 |
While Pawns Rot in Cuban Jails | 251 |
Cuba the United Nations and the Vanishing Socialist Bloc | 258 |
Realism and Chinese Repression | 268 |
REFLECTIONS ON THE NEW SOVIET REVOLUTION | 273 |
A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANGE | 293 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 317 |
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