ISBN-13: 9780520074293 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 208 str.
The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy yearsdevelopments that changed the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian society into an urban, industrial one. Here, for the first time, a noted authority on Soviet society identifies the crucial historical events and social forces that explain Glasnost and political and economic life in the Soviet Union today."