About the Author Erik P. Hoffmann is Professor of Political Science, The Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York at Albany, and Senior Associate, Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University. He is coauthor of Technocratic Socialism: The Soviet Union in the Advanced Industrial Era, The Politics of Economic Modernization in the Soviet Union, and "The Scientific-Technological Revolution" and Soviet Foreign Policy; editor of The Soviet Union in the 1980s; and coeditor (with Frederick J. Fleron) of The Conduct of Soviet Foreign Policy (Aldine, 1980) and The Soviet Polity in the Modern Era (Aldine, 1984).