Stephen Cohen Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Soviet Fates and Lost AlternativesCondition: NewEAN: 9780231148962ISBN: 9780231148962Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/23/2009Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Stephen CohenContributor: Stephen Cohen (Afterword by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: From Stalinism to the New Cold WarISBN-10: 0231148968Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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