Restructuring Soviet Ideology: Gorbachev’’s New Thinking

＂Sylvia Woodby is the author of Gorbachev and the Decline of Ideology in Soviet Foreign Policy (Westview, 1989), coauthor (with Carol R. Saivetz) of Soviet-Third World Relations (Westview, 1985), and coauthor (with Martha Cottam) of The Changing Agenda: World Politics Since 1945, second edition (Westview, forthcoming). 215Alfred B. Evans, Jr., is a professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Fresno. His publications on Soviet ideology include ＂Developed Socialism in Soviet Ideology＂(Soviet Studies, 1977) and ＂Rereading Lenin’s State and Revolution＂(Slavic Review, 1987). He has also published research on the impact of Soviet governmental policies aimed at the equalization of urban and rural living standards.＂