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Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives - From Stalinism to the New Cold War (Hardcover)
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Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives - From Stalinism to the New Cold War (Hardcover)
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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.
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