Failed Crusade - America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia

Failed Crusade is a deeply informed and passionate call for a fundamentally different American-Russian relationship in the post-Yeltsin era. Author Stephen Cohen shows that what US officials and other experts call "reform" has for most Russians been a catastrophic development-namely the unprecedented demodernization of a twentieth-century country-and for the United States the worst foreign policy disaster since Vietnam. What emerges is an alarming analysis of nuclear-laden Russia after 1991, representing an even greater threat to our national security than during the Cold War, and an indictment of American journalists and policy makers who failed to see or report the truth about the complicity of U.S. policy in a great human tragedy.

About the author

Stephen F. Cohen (1938-2020) was professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University, the author of numerous books, including Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution and Sovieticus, as well as a regular commentator on network television.

Summary

What really happened in Russia after the end of the Soviet Union, and how badly experts and the media misjudged it.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen F. Cohen, Stephen F. (Princeton University) Cohen
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2001
• EAN: 9780393322262
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32226-2
• No. of pages: 366
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 516 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education