Introduction: Regime that couldn't change, and other Sovietological myths
George F. Kennan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jerry F. Hough, and the nexus of Soviet change
Breaking free of the totalitarianism model: Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and American Sovietological literature, 1974-1977
Sovietology in a funk: neoconservatism and American scholarship on the Soviet Union, 1978-1981
Looking into a mirror dimly: American Soviet experts and the three post-Brezhnev successions, 1982-1985
Surprised by Gorbachev: American Sovietological literature and the possibility of innovative Soviet change after 1986.
