Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives

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From Stalinism to the New Cold War

Stephen Cohen, Stephen Cohen

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English

Columbia University Press
05 July 2011

History; European history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Comparative politics

In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's preeminent opponent, and Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and his rival Yegor Ligachev, Cohen shows that their defeated policies were viable alternatives and that their tragic personal fates shaped the Soviet Union and Russia today. Cohen's ramifying arguments include that Stalinism was not the predetermined outcome of the Communist Revolution; that the Soviet Union was reformable and its breakup avoidable; and that the opportunity for a real post-Cold War relationship with Russia was squandered in Washington, not in Moscow. This is revisionist history at its best, compelling readers to rethink fateful events of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and the possibilities ahead.

In his new epilogue, Cohen expands his analysis of U.S. policy toward post-Soviet Russia, tracing its development in the Clinton and Obama administrations and pointing to its initiation of a ""new Cold War"" that, he implies, has led to a fateful confrontation over Ukraine.

By: Stephen Cohen
Afterword by: Stephen Cohen
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN: 9780231148979
ISBN 10: 0231148976
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 05 July 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen F. Cohen is professor of Russian studies at New York University and professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University. His other books include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography; Rethinking the Soviet Experience; and Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia.

Reviews for Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War

Cohen offers us a lesson, and a solution that is at once simple and of priceless value. -- David A. Andelman, World Policy Blog A clearheaded yet impassioned plea to set on its proper track a relationship that is essential to global order in the twenty-first century. -- William W. Finan Jr., Current History provocative and insightful -- Amy Knight, New York Review of Books