Gorbachev: The Man and the System portrays Gorbachev's rise to power and his tenure in office against the background of a period of critical change and development in the Soviet system

1: A New Leadership for Old Problems and Future Challenges; I: Internal Politics; Selected Chronology of Significant Internal Developments and Events March 1985 through June 1987; 2: New Wine in Old (?) Bottles: Leadership and Personnel Changes; 3: To Build a Better Mousetrap: The Economy; 4: Images versus Reality: The Society and the Style; 5: Is the Media the Message? Glasnost and the Arts; II: Foreign Policies; 6: Happy Days Can Be Here Again: Relations with the United States and the Industrialized West; Selected East-West Chronology; 7: Scorpions in a Bottle: Arms Control Policy (Part One); 8: Arms Control Policy (Part Two) Reykjavik and Beyond: The Pendulum Swings; Selected Arms Control Chronology; 9: The Burdens and Benefits of Empire: Relations with Eastern Europe; Selected Soviet-Eastern European Chronology; 10: The "Mongol Hordes": Relations with the People's Republic of China; Selected Sino-Soviet Chronology; 11: Winning the Hearts and Minds: Relations with the Third World; Selected Soviet-Third World Chronology, from March 1985 *; III: Military Policies; 12: The Metal Eaters: The Armed Forces and Soviet Military Doctrine; IV: Conclusions; 13: The Emperor's New Clothes: What the Record Reveals; 14: The Past Is but Prologue: Projections for the Future