Perestroika In Perspective

by Archie Brown

Under the rubric of perestroika during Mikhail Gorbachev's seven years in office, the Soviet Union was first reformed, and then transformed, before collapsing under the weight of latent internal tensions. In this book, Archie Brown, a close observer of the ups and downs of perestroika, presents his articles on the dramatic events in Russia as they unfolded, and analyzes the shifting relationship of the Soviet Union with the West. These pieces are complemented with new contributions that give fresh perspective to the origins, course and collapse of perestroika, drawing upon the wealth of source material that has become available during the 1990s.

288 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Archibald Haworth Brown, commonly known as Archie Brown, is a British political scientist and historian. In 2005, he became an emeritus professor of politics at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, where he served as a professor of politics and director of St Antony's Russian and East European Centre. He has written widely on Soviet and Russian politics, on communist politics more generally, on the Cold War, and on political leadership.