Product Description: Commercializing High Technologies: East and West discusses key issues in the problems and opportunities of technology transfer that today confront both Russia and the United States. In the wake of the Cold War and dwindling state support, research and development firms now more than ever need to access the market potential of their substantial and often cutting edge technologies...read more

Product Description: This book provides a view of grass-roots movements that are testing the waters of broadened political participation in the USSR today. Contributors explore the emergence and development under perestroika of unofficial labour unions, women's groups, environmentalists and a variety of other social groups whose activities signal a critical transformation in the Soviet state-society relationship...read more