This book is based on a series of articles that the author wrote during the first two years after Gorbachev assumed the Soviet leadership in March 1985.
Daniels strives to put "perestroika" in its long-term historical perspective by placing it in a broad theory of revolutionary process, within the context of Leninism, Stalinism and Brezshnevism.
The Fourth Revolution shows how the cyclical nature of social movements has come to define not only American history but also the nation's ideal of progress.