Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Alternatives and Fates 1. Bukharin's Fate 2. The Victims Return: Gulag Survivors Since Stalin 3. The Tragedy of Soviet Conservatism 4. Was the Soviet System Reformable? 5. The Fate of the Soviet Union: Why Did It End? 6. Gorbachev's Lost Legacies 7. Who Lost the Post-Soviet Peace? About the Notes Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: S Cohen, Stephen Cohen, Stephen F. Cohen, Cohen Stephen
• Assisted by: Cohen Stephen (Afterword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780231148979
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14897-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Columbia University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era, Russian history; political science