Edited by The Federal Institute for Soviet and International Studies, Kohn, Germany.

• Notes on This Edition -- Introduction -- Domestic Policy -- Perestroika—an Interim Balance Sheet -- The Heart of Gorbachev’s Reform Package: Rebuilding the Party Apparatus -- The Nineteenth Party Conference: Reform of the Political System -- Portrait of Gorbachev -- “The History of Our Country Is Not the Biography of Stalin!”: Restructuring and History -- Legal Reform as a Means of Perestroika -- The KGB and Perestroika -- Society and Social Policy in Perestroika -- Anatomy of an Escalation: The Nationality Question -- Church-State Relations in the USSR in 1988: The Local Sobor of the Russian Orthodox Church -- Culture in Perestroika -- Soviet Media Policy Since 1985 -- The Ideology of Restructuring -- The Economy -- Between Crisis and Reform: The Soviet Economy on a Perilous Course -- Modernization of Soviet Industry: Program, Results, and Problems -- The Role of the Armament Sector in the Soviet Economy -- Is the Technological Breakthrough Succeeding? The Politics of Innovation Under Gorbachev -- Reforms in Agriculture -- Manufacturing Cooperatives, Self-Employment, and the Supply Crisis -- The USSR and CMEA: Economic Relations Between Cooperation and Conflict -- The Soviet Economy and the World Economy: From Invulnerability to Integration -- Foreign Policy -- Perestroika of Foreign and Security Policy -- Soviet Policy Toward the United States -- Soviet Policy Toward Eastern Europe -- Relations Between the USSR and the Federal Republic of Germany -- The CPSU and the System of Communist Parties -- Determinants of Warsaw Pact Strategic Offensive Capacity in Europe -- Conceptions for a Policy Toward Asia and Policy Vis-à-vis China -- The Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan -- Soviet Policy Toward South-East Asia Under Gorbachev -- The Middle East: Contours of a New Course -- The Soviet Union and Black Africa, 1985–1988 -- Appendix -- Research Reports of the Institute Relating to Subjects Covered in This Book