Foreword /Robert C Tucker -- List of Contributors -- List of Credits -- Part One -- Introduction -- 1 . Communist Studies and Political Science: Cold War and Peaceful Coexistence /Frederic J Fleron, Jr., and Erik P. Hoffmann -- Part Two -- Methodology and lessons from the Past -- 2. Model Fitting in Communism Studies /Gabriel A. Almond and Ulura Roselle -- 3. The Dilemmas of Sovietology and the -- labyrinth of Theory /Alexander J Motyl -- 4 . Science and Sovietology: Bridging the -- Methods Gap in Soviet Foreign Policy Studies /Jack Snyder -- 5.

The Uses and Abuses of Russian History /Alexander Dallin -- 6 . Historical Consciousness and the Incorporation -- of the Soviet Past /J Thomas Sanders -- 7. Politics and Methodology in Soviet Studies /Alfred G. Meyer -- 8. The Harvard Project and the Soviet Interview -- Project /Joseph R. Berliner -- 9. History, Method, and the Problem of Bias /James R. Millar -- 10.

The August Revolution and Soviet Studies /Robert T. Huber and Susan Bronson -- Part Three -- Empirical Theory and Understanding the Present -- 11. Soviet Reform and the End of the Cold War: Explaining large-Scale Historical Change /Daniel Deudney and G. fohn Ikenberry -- 12. Political Dynamics of the Post-Communist Transition: A Comparative Perspective /Russell Bova -- 13. Regime Transition in Communist Systems: The Soviet Case /Thomas F. Remington -- 14. Continuity and Change in Russian Political Culture /Jeffrey W.

Hahn -- 15. The Soviet Ethnic Scene: A Quarter Century later /John A. Armstrong -- 16. Approaches to the Study of Soviet Nationalities Politics: John Armstrong's Functionalism and Beyond /Mark R. Beissinger -- 17. The logic of Collective Action and the Pattern of Revolutionary Behavior /Jerry F. Hough -- Part Four -- Conclusion -- 18. Post-Communist Studies and Political Science: Peaceful Coexistence, Detente, and Entente /Frederic J.

Fleron, Jr., and Erik P. Hoffmann -- About the Book and Editors.