Description: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives : From Stalinism to the New Cold War, Hardcover by Cohen, Stephen F., ISBN 0231148968, ISBN-13 9780231148962, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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, Stalins 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. Cohens 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 . 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.
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Book Title: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives : From Stalinism to the New Co
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives : from Stalinism to the New Cold War
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2009
Subject: Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, General, Comparative Politics, Europe / General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 21.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Stephen Cohen
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
