The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State 
Subtitle: And Other Surprises
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Published: 1991
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780844737270
First sentence: The death of Andrei Sakharov in December 1989 deprived the nascent opposition group in the Soviet legislature-the Inter-regional Group-of a dynamic and eloquent leader.