1993 Reports

Comparative Politics and Lessons for the Present

Fleron, Frederic J., Jr.

Nearly three years ago in February 1990, Erik Hoffmann and I addressed members of the Harriman Institute on the subject of "Sovietology and Perestroika: Methodology and Lessons from the Past." Those remarks were elaborated in the September 1991 issue of The Harriman Institute Forum and are expanded in our essays in Post-Communist Studies and Political Science. The historical context of those earlier remarks was the month in which the CPSU Central Committee formally voted to end the Party's monopoly of political power through the repeal of Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution.