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Review “Since Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, Western analysts have been discussing four main questions—namely, what the party leadership wants to do, what it can do, what it will do, and what the outcome of its decisions will be in practice.” —J. L. Porket, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1994-)About the Author Peter Juviler is professor emeritus of political science and chair of the Human Rights Program both atBernardCollege. He is the author of numerous books including Freedom's Ordeal: Th e Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States, Human Rights for the 21st Century: Foundations for Responsible Hope, and Revolutionary Law and Order: Politics and Social Change in the USSR. Hiroshi Kimura is professor emeritus atHokkaidoUniversity as well as theInternationalCenter for Japanese Studies. He is the author of Distant Neighbors and co-editor of International Negotiation: Actors, Structural Process, Values.