"First published ... by New Literary Observer in two volumes ...".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English, translated from Russian.
Late 1989-a timeline: "If Lenin were alive today, he would know what to do" / Aleksey Yurchak -- January: my diary for January, 1990 / Mark Kharitonov -- February-the year of Utopias realized: schools, teachers, and educational reformers in 1990 / Tamara Eydelman -- March-the irrational in society: diagnoses of 1990 / Pavel Romanov and Yelena Yarksaya-Smirnova -- April: the shock of irrevocability / Hasan Guseynov -- May-ends and means: initial ideas, institutions that win / Vitaliy Yelizarov -- June-the beginning of the end: notes of an eyewitness, edited by an historian, being the same person / Marietta Chudakova -- July. Ideological construction of a party spectrum: the false start of 1990 / Vadim Goncharov ; Free flight: the rebirth of Soviet aeronautics / Svetlana Koroleva ; Trade unions in 1990: an involved obersver's view / Sergej Khramov -- August-the funeral of food, or, the Soviet shopping basket in 1990 / Sergey Karnaukhov -- September: the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990 / Nikolai Mitrokhin -- October. An interview with Vladimir Pozner ; Frozen experiences, or, local television reporting in 1990 / Pavel Pavlov -- November-the miners in 1989-90: a venture into national politics / Sergey Turkin -- December-history as economics, or, a journey from 1921 to 1906 via 1990 / Olesya Kirchik