Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Last updated: October 27, 2008
Published by Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois
Swords and Ploughshares series
Vol. IV / No. 3 / March 1990
Summary
Reverberations continue from the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe in the latter half of 1989. Although the road ahead is unknown, it is certain that the future will little resemble the post-World War II framework in which we had become all too comfortable. Profound and irreversible change has occurred.It is fitting, therefore, that this issue of Swords and Ploughshares is devoted to articles by scholars at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in which they analyze the significance of the changes that have taken place in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and then describe some of the unfinished business that remains.
Contents
Introduction 
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Speculations on the Fate of the Soviet Union and Mikhail Gorbachv [PDF]
Anatomy of Revolutions [PDF]
Poland, Escape from the Abyss? [PDF]
Changing Perceptions of Soviet Intent [PDF]
Soviet Civil-Military Relations under Gorbachev [PDF]