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Also by Stephen F. Cohen:

Soviet Fates And Lost Alternatives, August 2011
Paperback / e-Book
The Victims Return, September 2010
Hardcover

Soviet Fates And Lost Alternatives
Stephen F. Cohen

From Stalinism to the New Cold War

Columbia University Press
August 2011
On Sale: July 31, 2011
342 pages
ISBN: 0231148976
EAN: 9780231148979
Kindle: B005PYJUMA
Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

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.

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