The authors, American professors in Moscow during 1988's first six months, discuss the effects of the political changes taking place there and their influence on the common citizen
Definitely dated, as most current event books are 30 years after the fact.
"Moscow Spring" is filled with the cautious hope that blossomed in Russia during the Gorbachev years. Reading it years later when knowing how those hopes fizzled offers the opposite reading experience, depressing rather than hopeful.