Soviet Transition

Of course we watched it all on television, day by day, as the Evil Empire transmuted into the Circus Bear, but seeing it and knowing what to think about it are not the same. Scholars from eastern and western Europe and North America help out, in 14 papers from an April 1992 conference in Naples. ... constitutes a valuable collection of conference papers of high standard ... Among the other excellent contributions, Richard Sakwas analysis of eight different views of the coup stands out as potentially classic." Susan Saunders, The Political Quarterly Publishing, Blackwell Publishers 1994