From Union to Commonwealth

• 1. Introduction Gail Lapidus, Victor Zaslavsky and Philip Goldman; 2. State, civil society and ethnic cultural consolidation in the USSR - roots of the national question Ronald Suny; 3. The impact of perestroika on the national question Gail Lapidus; 4. The evolution of separatism in Soviet society under Gorbachev Victor Zaslavsky; 5. Perestroika and the ethnic consciousness of Russians Leokadia Drobizheva; 6. Nationality policies in the period of perestroika: some comments from a supreme Soviet deputy Galina Starovoiteva.

"Of the many books that emerged from the Fourth World Congress of Soviet and East European Studies Conference heldl at Harrogate, England, in 1990, this slim volume may be the best....It should be read by everyone interested in why the Soviet Union collapsed and what lies ahead." The Russian Review