- Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin, political leadership in Russia's transition, Archie Brown, Lilia Shevstova, editors
- The changing Soviet system, mono-organisational socialism from its origins to Gorbachev's restructuring, T.H. Rigby
- The Soviet Communist Party in disarray, the XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, edited by E.A. Rees
- The Gorbachev challenge and European security, a report from the European Strategy Group, ESG
- Revolutionary passage, from Soviet to post-Soviet Russia, 1985-2000, Marc Garcelon
- Handbook of reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, edited by Stephen White ; contributors John B. Allcock ... [and others]
- The awakening of the Soviet Union, Geoffrey Hosking
- From Brezhnev to Gorbachev, infighting in the Kremlin, Baruch A. Hazan
- In a collapsing empire, underdevelopment, ethnic conflicts and nationalisms in the Soviet Union, edited by Marco Buttino
- The Russian challenge and the year 2000, Alexander Yanov ; translated by Iden J. Rosenthal
- The politics of transition, shaping a post-Soviet future, Stephen White, Graeme Gill, Darrell Slider
- The Nationalities factor in Soviet politics and society, edited by Lubomyr Hajda, Mark Beissinger
- The KGB campaign against corruption in Moscow, Luc Duhamel
- Glasnostʹ in action, cultural renaissance in Russia, Alec Nove
- The central government of Russia, from Gorbachev to Putin, by Iulia Shevchenko
- Final days, the inside story of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Andrei S. Grachev ; with a foreword by Archie Brown ; translated by Margo Milne
- Stealing the state, control and collapse in Soviet institutions, Steven L. Solnick
- Lebt wohl, Genossen!, der Untergang des sowjetischen Imperiums, György Dalos ; herausgegeben von Christian Beetz und Olivier Mille ; [deutsche Bearbeitung von Elsbeth Zylla]
- Gorbatchev, l'URSS va-t-elle changer?, Michel Tatu
- The Gorbachev phenomenon, a history of perestroika, Françoise Thom ; translated by Jenny Marshall
- The soldier in Russian politics, duty, dictatorship and democracy under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, Robert V. Barylski
- Russia since 1980, wrestling with westernization, Steven Rosefielde, Stefan Hedlund
- Reexamining economic and political reforms in Russia, 1985-2000, generations, ideas, and changes, Vladimir Gelʹman, Otar Marganiya, and Dmitry Travin
- Mikhail Gorbachev, memoirs
- La Russia postcomunista, da Gorbaciov a Putin, Lev Gudkov, Victor Zaslavsky
- The dialectic of change, Boris Kagarlitsky ; translated by Rick Simon
- The Glasnost papers, voices on reform from Moscow, edited by Andrei Melville and Gail W. Lapidus ; compiled and with a commentary by O. Aliakrinskii ... [and others]
- Ethnicity and conflict in a post-communist world, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, edited by Kumar Rupesinghe, Peter G. King, and Olga Vorkunova
- Seven years that changed the world, perestroika in perspective, Archie Brown
- Europe from the Balkans to the Urals, the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, Reneo Lukic and Allen Lynch
- Gorbachev in power, Stephen White
- Square wheels, how Russian democracy got derailed, Boris Kagarlitsky ; translated by Leslie A. Auerbach ... [and others]
- The Soviet multinational state, readings and documents, edited by Martha B. Olcott with Lubomyr Hajda and Anthony Olcott
- Perestroika and the Party, national and transnational perspectives on European communist parties in the era of Soviet reform, edited by Francesco Di Palma
- Steeltown, USSR, Soviet society in the Gorbachev era, Stephen Kotkin
- Elites and political power in the USSR, edited by David Lane
- Perestroika, vues neuves sur notre pays et le monde, Mikhail Gorbatchev
- Gorbachev and his reforms, 1985-1990, Richard Sakwa
- Perestroika: the crunch is now, a collection of press articles and interviews, edited by Lena Krishtoff and Eva Skelley
- The political culture of the Russian "democrats", Alexander Lukin
- Soviet intellectuals and political power, the post-Stalin era, Vladimir Shlapentokh
- Burying Lenin, the revolution in Soviet ideology and foreign policy, Steven Kull
- Governing the Soviet Union's National Republics, the second secretaries of the communist party, Saulius Grybkauskas
- The Soviet system, from crisis to collapse, edited by Alexander Dallin, Gail W. Lapidus
- Gorbachev's export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe, democratisation reconsidered, Helen Hardman
- Soviet Union 2000, reform or revolution?, Walter Laqueur
- Russia beyond communism, a chronicle of national rebirth, Vladislav Krasnov
- Boris Yeltsin, from bolshevik to democrat, John Morrison
- Russian politics, the post-Soviet phase, Donald D. Barry
- Selected speeches and articles, Mikhail Gorbachev ; [translated from the Russian]