Volume 38, Number 18 · November 7, 1991
The End of the Empire
By Peter B. Reddaway
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
The Awakening of the Soviet Union
by Geoffrey Hosking
Harvard University Press, 246 pp., $10.95 (paper)
The USSR's Emerging Multiparty System
by Vera Tolz, foreword by S. Frederick Starr
Praeger/Center for Strategic and International Studies, 123 pp., $11.95 (paper)
Glasnost in Jeopardy: Human Rights in the USSR
by Helsinki Watch/Human Rights Watch
Helsinki Watch/Human Rights Watch, 180 pp., $15.00
Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin
by Dusko Doder, by Louise Branson
Viking, 450 pp., $24.95
Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and His Failure
by Robert G. Kaiser
Simon and Schuster, 476 pp., $24.95
The Second Russian Revolution Channel by Brian Lapping Associates
a documentary series made for BBC Television and the Discovery, produced by Norma Percy
Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform
by Anders Aslund
Cornell University Press, 262 pp., $14.95 (paper)
What Went Wrong with Perestroika.
by Marshall I. Goldman
Norton, 258 pp., $19.95
Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era
by Stephen Kotkin
University of California Press, 269 pp., $24.95
Comrade Lawyer: Inside Soviet Justice in an Era of Reform
by Robert Rand
Westview Press, 166 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Gorbachev, Glasnost & the Gospel
by Michael Bourdeaux
Hodder and Stoughton, 226 pp., £8.99 (paper)
Inside the KGB: My Life in Soviet Espionage
by Vladimir Kuzichkin, translated by Thomas B. Beattie
Pantheon, 406 pp., $25.00
'Gorbachev's Endgame'
by Jerry F. Hough
World Policy Journal, $6.75
On September 25 of this year the president of the Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, told President Bush that 'the United States must accept the independence of republics such as the Ukraine, because central government in the Soviet Union no longer exists.'[1] On October 4 he said, 'I am against political union.'[2] Earlier, the Ukraine's defense minister had said, 'We reject the idea of a unified military command. Our approach will be step-by-step towards an independent Ukrainian army.'[3] Earlier still, a division of KGB special troops stationed in the Ukraine's Kharkov region had, without asking Moscow's approval, applied to the minister to join his embryonic army.[4]
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