Author Description

Introduction / Uri Ra'anan -- Pt. I The Soviet Riposte To Challenges Posed By Democratic Movements: Will The Cpsu Survive Gorbachev's Reform? / Igor Lukes -- The Emergence Of Parliamentary Opposition In The Ussr / Elizabeth Teague -- The Kgb And Democratization: A New Legal Order? / Amy Knight -- Pt. Ii Challenges Posed By National Movements In The Ussr: The Russian Problem: Conceptual And Operational Aspects / Uri Ra'anan -- National Reawakening: The Ukraine And Belorussia / Roman Szporluk -- Baltic Communism And Nationalism: Kto Kovo? / Walter Clemens -- National Movements In The Transcaucasus And Central Asia: Moscow's Dilemma / Robert F. Baumann -- The Soviet Armed Forces: The Challenge Of Reform And The Ethnic Factor / Teresa Rakowska-harmstone -- Pt. Iii National And Democratic Challenges To Other Communist Regimes: The Challenge Of Democratic And Nationalist Movements To The Communist Regimes In Hungary, Poland, And Czechoslovakia / Ewa M. Thompson -- Which Way Will China Go / Merle Goldman -- National And Democratic Inevitabilities In Western Europe / Milovan Djilas. Edited By Uri Ra'anan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.