Paul Gregory (Houston and Hoover), a leading researcher in Stalin's archives, and Kate Zhou (Hawaii), a specialist in Chinese affairs, have joined forces to consider "How China Won and Russia Lost." Their article, in the Hoover Policy Review no. 158 (December 2009), challenges the standard story "that China succeeded because a wise party leadership deliberately chose gradualism, retained the monopoly of the Communist Party after rebuffing democracy at Tiananmen Square, and carefully guided the process over the years [and] that Russia failed because the tempestuous Gorbachev ignored the Chinese reform model, moved too quickly, and allowed the party monopoly to fall apart." This article is freely downloadable at http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/72997307.html.