Seven years that changed the world: perestroika in perspective

I: Introduction

II: Gorbachev: new man in the Kremlin

The first phase of Soviet reform, 1985-6

Fundamental political change, 1987-9

Reconstructing the Soviet political system

III: Institutional amphibiousness or civil society? The origins and development of Perestroika

The dismantling of the system and the disintegration of the state

Transnational influences in the transition from communism

Ending the Cold War

Gorbachev and his era in perspective.