Although there is an abundance of scholarly inquiry into the effects on the Soviet socialist system of the historic reforms under Gorbachev's administration, relatively little attention has been paid to the impact these reforms might have on socialism outside the Soviet Union.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies at Bradley University. He was coeditor (with Mark A. Cichock, 1987) of Prospects for Change in Socialist Systems.
J. RICHARD WALSH is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wittenberg University . He is the author of Change, Continuity and Commitment: China's Adaptive Foreign Policy (1988).