San Antonio College Library

Continues the dramatic story of the impact of social revolution on a Cossack farming village.

A leading analyst of the Soviet economy demonstrates that impending disasters in that economy result from a staunchly adhered-to, outdated planning model and that corrections depend on reforms that may release uncontrollable forces within the U.S.S.R.

Translation from Russian. Includes bibliographical references.

"In all of Moscow, few vantage points are as spectacular as Sparrow Hill, a forested, sloping rise perched above the Moscow River where it makes a lazy turn toward the Kremlin. One evening in September 1994, a group of wealthy Russian businessmen gathered in secret at a villa at the crest of the hill, overlooking the river. They began a conversation that would change Russia forever." "This book is a chronicle of six men who helped lead Russia in one...

A look at what the Soviet collective farms were like in 1963.

Concerning women and society in Russia and the Soviet Union, this book contains essays on culture, literature, history, sociology and politics, spanning a period of over one hundred years from pre-revolutionary to more recent times.