Index to
Perestroika: a Marxist Critique [1990]

• Introduction

Part I

• The global context of restructuring

• How the imperialists see detente

• Gorbachev's world view

• Two revolutions and their thinkers

• Crime and the reforms

Part II: Article from Workers World Newspaper

• Soviet economic restructuring and the capitalist market July 30, 1987

• The debate over foreign trade August 6, 1987

• Joint ventures and socialist planning August 13, 1987

• Gorbachev's June 1987 report on the reforms August 20, 1987

• The problem of consumer goods: An historical review August 27, 1987

• Marxism and material incentives September 17, 1987

• Trade unions, wages and prices October 1, 1987

• The reforms and the national question: Armenia and Azerbaijan March 17, 1988

• On the eve of the Soviet party conference May 26, 1988

• The Soviet reforms and the thrust from the right June 2, 1987

• The conservative opposition June 9, 1988

• The Makarov thesis June 16, 1988

• Gorbachev's response to the crisis over Nagorno-Karabakh August 11, 1988

• Socialism and the equality of nations: Kazakhstan August 18, 1988

• The struggle in the Baltic states August 25, 1988

• The structure of the Soviet state September 1, 1988

• Rise of the USSR as a world power October 6, 1988

• The shift in the party leadership October 13, 1988

• North and South: National tensions and economic change December 8, 1988

• The socialist solution to the food problem: Part I December 22, 1988

• The socialist solution to the food problem: Part II December 29, 1988

• The miners' strike: Working class resurgence August 3, 1989

• Aftermath of the miners' strike August 17, 1989

Appendixes

• Appendix 1: The plan to divert Siberian rivers

• Appendix 2: The ruble and the dollar in the world struggle

• Appendix 3: Chronology [Covers events referred to in this book]

• Glossary of terms and names

• Bibliography