ANNE WHITE is Lecturer in Russian, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath. She is the author of De-Stalinization and the House of Culture: Declining State Control over Leisure in the USSR, Poland and Hungary, 1953-1989, and number of articles on the Russian.

This monograph provides a detailed and fascinating survey of the emergence of the 'voluntary sector' in the USSR during the early 1980s and throughout the reign of M.S. Gorbachev as General Secretary. Russian Review

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Demokratizatsiya and the Voluntary Sector 1985: the State in Crisis 1985: Society in Crisis Perestroika and the Immediate Causes of the Voluntary Sector's Emergence Charities Self-help Organizations The Communist Response Building Political and Civil Society Conclusions and Epilogue Appendix Bibliography Notes and References Index

ANNE WHITE is Lecturer in Russian, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath. She is the author of De-Stalinization and the House of Culture: Declining State Control over Leisure in the USSR, Poland and Hungary, 1953-1989, and number of articles on the Russian.

This monograph provides a detailed and fascinating survey of the emergence of the 'voluntary sector' in the USSR during the early 1980s and throughout the reign of M.S. Gorbachev as General Secretary. Russian Review

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Demokratizatsiya and the Voluntary Sector 1985: the State in Crisis 1985: Society in Crisis Perestroika and the Immediate Causes of the Voluntary Sector's Emergence Charities Self-help Organizations The Communist Response Building Political and Civil Society Conclusions and Epilogue Appendix Bibliography Notes and References Index