The Demise of the USSR

List of Plates - Acknowledgements - Map: Newly Independent States - Introduction; A.Lynch - PART ONE: THE CENTER LOSES CONTROL - A Bankrupt System: Nationalism and Personal Ambitions; A.Sheehy - The Collapse of the CPSU; E.Teague & V.Tolz - Perestroika, Radical Reform, and Soviet Economic Disintegration; J.Tedstrom - New Thinking and the Collapse of the Soviet Bloc; S.Crow - The August Coup; W.Slater - The Demise of the Soviet Armed Forces: Gateway to a New Security Order?; S.Foye - The Impact of Glasnost; V.Tolz - PART TWO: THE DYNAMICS OF SELF-DETERMINATION - Russia; A.Rahr - Ukraine; R.Solchanyk - Belarus; K.Mihalisko - The Baltic Republics-Historical Introduction; D.Bungs - Estonia; R.Kionka - Latvia; D.Bungs - Lithuania; S.Girnius - Transcaucasia; E.Fuller - Central Asia; B.Brown - Moldova; V.Socor - PART THREE: THE FIRST YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE - The Commonwealth of Independent States: An Uneven Partnership; A.Sheehy - Developments in the Emerging Post-Soviet Economy; E.Whitlock - The CIS Armed Forces in 1992; S.Foye - The First Year of Russian Independence; A.Rahr - Ukraine: A Year of Transition; R.Solchanyk - Belarus: A Year on a Treadmill; A.Lukashuk - Transcaucasia During Its First Year of Independence; E.Fuller - Central Asia: The First Year of Unexpected Statehood; B.Brown - Moldova: Facing Russian Pressure; V.Socor - Estonia: A Difficult Transition; R.Kionka - Latvia: Towards Full Independence; D.Bungs - Lithuania: Former Communists Return to Power; S.Girnius - Conclusion: Domestic Dynamics and International Consequences of the Disintegration of the Soviet Union; A.Lynch - Epilogue: The Moscow Events of September-October 1993 and the Future of Democracy in Russia; V.Tolz - DOCUMENTATION - Agreement on the Creation of a Commonwealth of Independent States - Charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States - Index