Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives - From Stalinism to the New Cold War

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen Cohen, Stephen F. Cohen, Cohen Stephen
• Con la collaborazione di: Cohen Stephen (Postfazione)
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9780231148962
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14896-2
• Pagine: 328
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 240 mm x 26 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche comparate e internazionali; 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