cover image New Russians

New Russians

Hedrick Smith, H. Smith. Harper Perennial, $12.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71651-7

Ten visits to the U.S.S.R. over a two-year period and the observations of farmers, industry managers, the party bureaucracy and the Soviet media convinced Smith that the process of change in the Soviet Union will sustain momentum--with or without Gorbachev. ``This riveting, in-depth report has its finger on the pulse of perestroika and glasnost ,'' said PW . (Oct.)