The Soviet Transition : From Gorbachev to Yeltsin / edited by Stephen White, Rita Di Leo, and Ottorino Cappelli.

Of course we watched it all on television, day by day, as the Evil Empire transmuted into the Circus Bear, but seeing it and knowing what to think about it are not the same. Scholars from eastern and western Europe and North America help out, in 14 papers from an April 1992 conference in Naples.