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Gorbachev And Glasnost: Viewpoints From The Soviet Press

Edited by Isaac J. Tarasulo
Reviewed by By John C. Campbell
Spring 1990
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Edited by Isaac J. Tarasulo
Scholarly Resources
1989
363 pp.
$35.00

Articles translated from the daily, weekly and monthly Soviet press, illustrating the explosion of public debate on the issues of reform, democratization, self-determination of nationalities, military and foreign policy. With glasnost the Soviet press is now an invaluable source of information on politics and society. The book is inevitably only a sampling, but the selection is judicious, including the views of conservatives as well as reformers.

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