CONTENTS
Foreword by Martin McCauley
A Note on Russian Names
To the Reader
In Place of a Preface
PART I. Roots
1. 27 November 1978
2. Stavropol - Moscow - Stavropol
3. Moscow State University
4. An Initial Test of Strength
5. Launching My Party Career
6. The Challenge of Power
7. At Staraya Ploshchad
8. On the Eve
PART II. In the Kremlin
9. General Secretary
10. More Light
11. The First Attempt at Economic Reform
12. The Decisive Step
13. Work and Reflection
14. Political Reform: Power Is Transferred from Staraya Ploshchad to the Kremlin
15. Nationalities Policy: A Difficult Search
16. The Party and Perestroika
17. How to Enter the Market
PART III. The Changing Soviet Union and the World
18. New Thinking in Foreign Policy
19. Europe - our Common Home
20. Towards a New World Order
21. Perestroika and the SociaHst Countries
22. Moscow and Beijing:'Close the Past, Open the Future
23. Overcoming Divisions in Europe
24. German Unification
25. Understanding Leads to Partnership
26. The Middle East Knot: Trial by Aggression
PART IV. 1991, the Stormy Year
27. Threats and Hopes
28. Economic Recognition for a Changing Soviet Union: The Group of Seven in 1991
29. Bush in Moscow Three Weeks before the Coup
30. The Coup
31. The Last Efforts and the Belovezh Conspiracy
32. The Soviet Union and the World after the Coup
Epilogue
Chronology
Glossary by Martin McCauley
Biographies
Index
