Preface: Perestroika and the future -- I : After Perestroika -- The 1990s: defending Perestroika -- Shock therapy -- Fateful decisions,fateful days -- 1994 gets off to a bad start -- 1995: 10 years of Perestroika -- The need for an alternative -- Yhe final years if the millennium -- II : Whither Russia? -- Putin: the beginning -- Full of contrasictions: the first decade of the new millennium -- The presidential 'Reshuffle' and the duma elections -- III : Today's uneasy world -- The relevance of new thinking -- Responding to the environmental challenge -- Meeting in America -- The future of Europe -- Looking East -- Simmering regions -- Conclusion

1. Ex-presidents -- Soviet Union -- Biography
2. Perestroika -- History
3. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991
4. Presidents -- Soviet Union -- Biography
5. Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
6. Political culture -- Russia (Federation) -- History
7. Gorbachev
8. Mikhail Sergeevich -- 1931-
9. Gorbachev
10. Mikhail Sergeevich -- 1931- -- Political and social views