USSR 1987-1991: Marxist Perspectives

Contents
PART I. PERESTROIKA, GLASNOST, AND THE WORKERS  Introduction
1 Economic Reform and Democratization
2 What\'s in It for the Workers
3 Political Crisis at the Top
4.. Miners\' Strike Opens New Act in Perestroika
;J Soviet Elections-Rumblings below the
 Surface
6 Workers of the USSR-Unite
7. Gorbachev Forced to Retreat on Economic
 Plans: Soviet Masses Intervene
8 The Capitalist Market and the Workers\'
 State: Assessing the Reforms in Eastern
 Europe and the USSR
9 Soviet Communist Party Congress Registers
 Dramatic Changes
10 From Perestroika to Perestrelka
11 The Soviet Economy: Difficult Birth of a
 Workers\' Movement
12 We Must Decide Wnat Is Rational\": An  Interview with the Soviet Miners\' Leader
13 Who Will Save Russia from Yeltsin
14 Deepening Economic Crisis in the USSR
PART II. REBELLION OF THE NON-RUSSIAl\\S  Introduction
15 National Struggle and Political Revolution
 in Armenia and Azerbaijan (Part 1
16 National Struggle and Political Revolution
 in Armenia and Azerbaijan ( Part 2
17 We Need an Ideology
18 The Politics of Baltic Independence
19 Gorbachev Threatens Military Crackdown
20 Looking Down the Chilean Road
21 Ukrainian Movement Faces Historic Tasks
22 Mass National Movement Launched in Ukraine
23 First Congress of the Popular Movement
 for the Reconstruction of Ukraine
24 For the Independence of Soviet Ukraine
25 The Lviv Strike Committee-The Role of
 Workers in the Ukrainian National
 Movement
26 Ukrainian Solidarity with Lithuania: An
 Interview with an RUKH Leader
PART III. HISTORY IS KNOCKING AT THE DOOR
 Introduction
27 The Causes and Consequences of Bukharin\'s
 Rehabilitation
28 The Train of History
29 Glasnost Changes Trotsky\'s Image from ··:Mad
 Dog\'\' to Tragic \"\'Demon
30 Soviet Press Agency Does a Turnaround on
 Trotskyism 27
31 Current Events in the Soviet Union
32 Trotsky\'s Voice Heard Again in the USSR
33 Trotskv., : On the Road to the Truth about Him
 An Interview with Professor V. I. Billik
34 \"\"Afterword\" to the Soviet Edition of Leon
 Trotsky\'s The Stalin School of Falsification
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 35 The New School of Falsification
PART IV. POLITICS AND THE PEOPLE
 Introduction
36 Conversations in the USSR: Diary of a Trip
 (Part 1
37 Conversations in the USSR: Diary of a Trip
 (Part 2
38 Conversations in the USSR: Diary of a Trip
 (Part 3
39 \"\"Nobody Sees Perestroika from a Woman\'s
 Point of View\'\': An Interview with Olga A.
 Voronina of the USSR Academy of Sciences
40 A Visit to the USSR
41 \"\"Our Program Is Self-Management and Self-
 Government\": An Interview with a Leader
 of the Movement for a New Socialist Party
 in Russia
.2 •• Problems Facing Workers in the USSR
 Today\": An Interview with Soviet Trade
 Union Activists
.3 The Af tennath of Chernobyl: Four Years
 after the Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine
44 Shades of Green: An Interview with a Soviet
 Ecology Activist
45 Potential for a Conscious, Working-Class
 Revolutionary Movement in the USSR
46 Discussion by Soviet Revolutionaries
.7 Introduction to the Trade Union
 \"\"Independence
48 Self-Management versus Nomenklatura
 Capitalism: An Interview with
 Alexander Buzgalin
49 Declaration from Soviet Revolutionists:
 Revolutionary Proletarian Cells
50 Direct Action and Left Unity: An Interview
 with a Soviet Anarchist
51 Perestroika and the Arms Race
52 Latin American Communist Parties: The
 Impact of Perestroika
PART V. A NEW STAGE OPENS
 Introduction
53 Understanding the Soviet Coup
54 Boris Kagarlitsky Explains the Moscow Coup
55 Yeltsin Extends His Power
56 A View from the Soviet Left
57 Moscow Appeal for a Party of Labor
58 Soviet Trade Unions Back Party of Labor
59 4\' We Are Not Conspirators
60 Since the Coup in the USSR
Contn\'butors
Index