CONTENTS

Foreword to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition

William Taubman

PART ONE: The October Revolution: Its Sense and Significance

  1.    A Blunder of History, Accident, or Necessity?

  2.    Was Socialism Built in the Soviet Union?

  3.    Let’s Not Oversimplify! A Balance Sheet of the Soviet Years

  4.    October and the World

  5.    One More Balance Sheet: Something Worth Thinking About

  6.    October and Perestroika

  7.    Does Socialism Have a Future?

  8.    Summing Up

PART TWO: The Union Could Have Been Preserved

  9.    A Tragic Turn of Events

10.    Tbilisi … Baku … Vilnius

11.    Toward a New Union Treaty

12.    Referendum on the Union

13.    The Coup: A Stab in the Back—and the Intrigues of Yeltsin

14.    The Belovezh Accord: Dissolution of the USSR

15.    What Lies Ahead?

PART THREE: The New Thinking: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

16.    The Sources of the New Thinking

17.    The Very First Steps

18.    The Conception (1985–1991)

19.    Overcoming the Cold War

20.    The Transitional World Order

21.    The New Thinking in the Post-Confrontational World

22.    The Challenge of Globalization

23.    The Challenge of Diversity

24.    The Challenge of Global Problems

25.    The Challenge of Power Politics

26.    The Challenge of Democracy

27.    The Challenge of Universal Human Values

28.    The Beginning of History?

Index