Entitled "Soviet Transformation Watch, " this effort will help Western policy-makers, publics and media recognize the differences between developments in the former USSR that represent genuine structural reform and those of a more cosmetic nature that seem, instead, designed to help preserve institutions and instrumentalities of repressive central control.
In nature, we see the fantastic diversity generated by a few basic structural elements: no more than a hundred varieties of atoms and a couple of primary colors, lead to a universe of infinite beauty and diversity.