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Guide to Further Reading Guide to Further Reading All the chapters in this volume are based, to varying extents, on the con­ temporary Russian press and periodical literature. A substantial selection of these sources is available in translation in the Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (Columbus, Ohio, weekly) and in daily monitoring ser­ vices such as the American-based Foreign Broadcast Information Service and the BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. Detailed commentaries on current developments are available in the Research Report issued by Radio Liberty in Munich; a separate series of News Briefs is also issued on a daily basis (and is available, like many of these services, on-line). More extended scholarly commentaries are available in the journals that specialise in Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, among them Europe-Asia Studies (formerly Soviet Studies, eight issues annually), Slavic Review (quarterly), Russian Review (quarterly), Post-Soviet Affairs (formerly Soviet Economy, quarterly), the Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (formerly Soviet Union, quarterly), the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics (formerly the Journal of Communist Studies, quarterly) and Com­ munist and Post-Communist Studies (formerly Studies in Comparative Communism, quarterly). A helpful collection of statistics is available in Ryan (1993), which includes data on the population and public opinion as well as housing, crime and the environment. Chapter 1 Introduction: From Communism to Democracy? There are several detailed assessments of the Gorbachev leadership and of the post-communist years that have followed it (see for instance Sakwa, 1990; Parker, 1991; White, 1993; and Miller, 1993). An early biography of Gorbachev is available in Medvedev (1988); see also Schmidt-Hauer (1986), Doder and Branson (1990), and Ruge (1991). Gorbachev's speeches and writings are available in several editions, among them Selected Speeches and Articles, 2nd ed. (Moscow: Progress, 1987); Socialism, Peace and Democracy (London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zwan, 1987); Speeches and Writings, 2 vols. (Oxford: Pergamon, 1986 and 1987); Meaning of My Life: Perestroika (Edinburgh: Aspect, 331 332 Guide to Further Reading 1990); and his best-selling Perestroika (Gorbachev, 1987). Boris Yeltsin has set out his early life in Against the Grain (Yeltsin, 1990); an interim biography is available in Morrison, 1991. A broader view of Soviet and post-Soviet change is presented in Grey (1990), Hosking (1991), Hahn (1991a), Gibson, Duch and Tedin (1991), Finifter and Mickiewicz (1992) and Miller (1993), which explore public responses and the development of a 'civil society', in many cases through the use of survey evidence. The 'New Russian Barometer', conducted annually by the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of StrathcJyde, is reported in Boeva and Shironin (1992) and Rose et al. (1993). Among Russian-language sources of survey data, the most impor­ tant are the All-Union Centre for the Study of Public Opinion's monthly Ekonomicheskie i sotsial'nye peremeny: monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniya and Vox Populi's Mir mnenii i mneniya 0 mire. Chapter 2 Yeltsin and the Russian Presidency A number of texts offer useful overviews of the evolving late Soviet and post-Soviet national leadership and political system. Among these, White (1993) and White, Gill and Slider (1993) offer especially detailed treat­ ments. Huber and Kelley (1991) and Huskey (1992) provide a broad overview of institutional and elite issues for the Gorbachev period. Bremmer and Taras (1993) contains focussed chapters on the politics of each of the 15 successor states. The weekly background analyses of the RFEjRL Research Reports provide a wealth of timely information on institutional and political elite developments in the post-Soviet Russian Federation and other successor states. An insightful examination of Arkadii Volsky and other Russian centrists in this connection is available in Lohr (1993); on Yeltsin and his support since 1991, see White, McAll­ ister and Kryshtanovskaya (1994). For a comprehensive review of the Soviet-period political leadership see Hough and Fainsod (1979) and Hough (1980). Breslauer (1982) pro­ vides a thorough treatment of the policy dilemmas and authority-building efforts of the Khrushchev and Brezhnev regimes. A discussion of Soviet elite generational change and its consequences is found in Bialer (1980) and Breslauer (1984). Two collections of T.H. Rigby's work (1990a and 1990b) provide a comprehensive overview of one leading scholar's careful study of the Soviet system and elite. Edited volumes by Lane (1988) and Brown (1989) include a diversity of analyses by leading scholars on poli­ tical elite and leadership issues. Willerton (1992) offers a comparative study of the Brezhnev and Gorbachev period elite mobility and regime formation norms. A series of articles that appeared in the journal Soviet Economy between 1989 and 1991 span a range of perspectives on Gorba­ chev's leadership style and effectiveness: see particularly Breslauer (1989 and 1990), Brown (1990), Hough (1991) and Reddaway (1990). Among studies of Soviet and post-Soviet subnational political and leadership are Guide to Further Reading 333 Bahry (1987), Urban (1989), Brovkin (1990a), Gleason (1991), Willerton and Reisinger (1991), and Friedgut and Hahn (1994). Chapter 3 Representative Power and the Russian State Detailed discussion of electoral and representative politics are included in several more general studies of the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods, among them White (1993), White, Gill and Slider (1993) and Sakwa (1993). Studies that focus more particularly on the representative system include Urban (1990a), Huber and Kelley (1991), Kiernan (1993), Chiesa (1993) and Remington (1994). On the wider issue of parliamentary versus presidential forms, see for instance Lijphart (1992), Shugart and Carey (1992) and Mainwaring (1993). Chapter 4 Parties and the Party System For a general account of the CPSU's traditional role and structures see Hill and Frank (1987). Two standard histories of party development, from its origins to the 1960s, are Rigby (1968) and Schapiro (1970). The Party Programme and Rules, as adopted in 1986, are conveniently avail­ able in White (1989); for the Rules since their adoption up to 1986 see Gill (1988). For a selection of more research-oriented studies see for instance Potichnyj (1988) and Rigby (1990b), which expertly examines a number of the issues central to the CPSU, its role and performance. Contributions to the CPSU in its changing identity and role include Hill (1988), Hill (1991a and 1991b), White (1991b), Rees (1992), Millar (1992) and the relevant chapters of Miller (1993). A preliminary survey of the emerging multiparty system in Tolz (1990); Urban (1990b) records Russian views at the beginning of the decade; and a long chapter in Sakwa (1993) looks at the emerging system as of early 1993. For various surveys of the emerging Russian parties, see for instance Lentini (1992), Dallin (1993) and Spravochnik (1993); for 'Communists after commun­ ism' see White and McAllister (1994). Chapter 5 Citizen and State under Gorbachev and Yeltsin White (1993) and Sakwa (1993) provide close analyses of both the Gor­ bachev and Yeltsin reform programmes as contexts for citizen-state rela­ tions. For a study and the texts of the four Soviet constitutions, see Unger (1981); for the 1978 Russian Constitution, as revised, and the alternative drafts that were prepared in 1992-3, see Konstitutsii (1993). The text of the constitution that was approved at the referendum in December 1993 is available in lzvestiya, 28 December 1993. For an ana­ lysis of the evolution of Soviet constitutional reform from the 1977 334 Guide to Further Reading USSR Constitution up to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, see Sharlet (1992b). On human rights in the post-Stalin period up to per­ estroika see Reddaway (1972), Rubenstein (1985) and Alexeyeva (1987). On human rights under Gorbachev, see Sharlet (1992a) and Juviler and Gross (1993). The Soviet legal system is covered in Butler (1988), and the Russian system that succeeded it in Feldbrugge (1993); the East European Constitutional Review (Chicago, since 1992) is useful on more recent developments. Hopkins has written on the post-Stalin media up to Gorbachev, including the official media (1970) and the samizdat or underground media (1983). Two comprehensive studies of glasnost are Laqueur (1989) and Nove (1989); for the late Soviet and postcommunist period see Benn (1992). Entin (1991), one of the authors of the Soviet law on the press, discusses the drafting process, while Remington (1991) provides a case study of the law's passage. Finally a well-edited selection of letters to the editor during the period from 1987 and 1990 can be found in Cerf and Albee (1990); see also Riordan and Bridger (1992). Chapter 6 The Economy: The Rocky Road From Plan to Market Given the rapid pace of developments in recent years, the best sources are journals such as Europe-Asia Studies (Glasgow), Post-Soviet Affairs (Berkeley), and the weekly Research Report issued by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Munich). Translations from Soviet and Russian journals and newspapers are available in the Current Digest of the Soviet (since 1992, Post-Soviet) Press and in the Foreign Broadcast Information Service series on Central Eurasia. For analyses of the development and deepening crisis of the Soviet-period economy see Hewett (1988), Nove (1992), Campbell (1992) and Rutland (1985 and 1993); on the post­ communist period the best monographs are Aslund (1991) and Aslund and Layard (1993). An authoritative overview is the IMF study com­ pleted in late 1990 (IMF, 1991). Also useful is the collection of articles from the journal Soviet Economy (Hewett and Winston, 1991). On priva­ tisation more particularly see Chapter 7 and Frydman et al. (1993); on foreign economic relations, Smith (1993). Chapter 7 Privatisation: the Politics of Capital and Labour For a survey of the post-1990 debates over privatisation see Flaherty (1992), Clarke (1992) and Clarke et al.
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