Gorbachev and reform : an introduction /Herbert J. Ellison -- The Soviet political scene : the era of Gorbachev? / Archie Brown -- The Soviet future : Gorbachev and the economy / Robert W. Campbell -- Gorbachev and the Soviet military / Sergie Zamascikov -- Nationalities in the Soviet future : trends under Gorbachev / Daniel C. Matuszewski -- The paradoxes of Soviet fiction in the 1980s / Geoffrey A. Hosking -- The reform of the Soviet educational system : between modernization and ideological control / Oskar Anweiler (translated by Pedro Ramet) -- Church and state under Gorbachev : what to expect? / D.V. Pospielovsky -- Soviet policy toward the United States and Western Europe : "Atlanticism" versus the "common house" / Hannes Adomeit -- U.S.-Soviet relations : trends and prospects / Alexander Dallin -- Gorbachev's dilemmas in Eastern Europe / Pedro Ramet -- Soviet relations with the Developing World / Pedro Ramet.