"Andrei Melville is vice-president of the Soviet Peace Committee. Gall W. Lapidus is a professor of political science at the University of California-Berkeley and chair of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies."

• A Personal Introduction -- Overview—The Role of Glasnost in Gorbachev's Reform Strategy -- The Anatomy of Glasnost -- Debates over History: We Want to Know the Truth About Our Past -- The Church and Religion in Soviet Society -- The Debate over Justice and Individual Rights -- An Economy at the Crossroads -- Nationality Relations in the Age of Glasnost -- What Is New About New Political Thinking? -- We and the Outside World -- Conclusion

"Andrei Melville is vice-president of the Soviet Peace Committee. Gall W. Lapidus is a professor of political science at the University of California-Berkeley and chair of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies."

• A Personal Introduction -- Overview—The Role of Glasnost in Gorbachev's Reform Strategy -- The Anatomy of Glasnost -- Debates over History: We Want to Know the Truth About Our Past -- The Church and Religion in Soviet Society -- The Debate over Justice and Individual Rights -- An Economy at the Crossroads -- Nationality Relations in the Age of Glasnost -- What Is New About New Political Thinking? -- We and the Outside World -- Conclusion

"Andrei Melville is vice-president of the Soviet Peace Committee. Gall W. Lapidus is a professor of political science at the University of California-Berkeley and chair of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies."

• A Personal Introduction -- Overview—The Role of Glasnost in Gorbachev's Reform Strategy -- The Anatomy of Glasnost -- Debates over History: We Want to Know the Truth About Our Past -- The Church and Religion in Soviet Society -- The Debate over Justice and Individual Rights -- An Economy at the Crossroads -- Nationality Relations in the Age of Glasnost -- What Is New About New Political Thinking? -- We and the Outside World -- Conclusion