1. The pluralisation of the Soviet political system and its consequences — both intended and unintended — constitute far too large a subject on which to digress in this chapter. My own interpretations are to be found, inter alia, in Archie Brown, The Gorbachev Factor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996);
2. Brown, ‘Transnational Influences in the Transition from Communism’, Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2000, pp. 177–200;
3. and Brown, Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2006).