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Cohen, Stephen Frand was born on November 25, 1938 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Son of Marvin Stafford and Ruth (Frand) Cohen.
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This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particularly on the development of his theories and programmatic ideas during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929.
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Stephen F. Cohen, the renowned Sovietologist, has expanded his classic volume of essays which offer new interpretations of Soviet history and current political realities to include the Gorbachev years. Focusing on the many significant changes that have occurred recently in the Soviet Union, Cohen challenges both traditional and revisionist views of the USSR and confronts the issue of how the United States has chosen to deal with the Soviet Union, offering cogent alternatives for American/Soviet relations.
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(In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen...)
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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Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called "the other holocaust." Over the course of 24 years, more innocent men, women, and children perished than died in Hitler's murder of European Jews. This book originated 30 years ago when Stephen F. Cohen, a professor of Russian studies and history at New York University, first began researching the lives of those victims released after Stalin's death. There was precious little information available, and many of the victims were still afraid, but Cohen persisted, and through the years accumulated the remarkable stories of their return to society.
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( “A unique and valuable contribution. . . .Cohen brings ...)
“A unique and valuable contribution. . . .Cohen brings to his analyses a keen critical perception, vast knowledge and―most noteworthy―a lucid style that makes his informed comments accessible to the non-specialist reader.” ―Newspaper Guild, 1985 Page One Award Gorbachev, dissidents, and Cold War perils are some of the topics discussed in this book that provides the historical context and informed analysis so often lacking in American commentary on Soviet affairs today.
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Stalin’s Reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called “the other holocaust.” During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women, and children perished than in Hitler’s destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin’s Gulag of torture prisons and forced labor camps, yet others survived and were freed after his death in 1953. This book is the story of the survivors. Long kept secret by Soviet repression and censorship, it is now told by renowned author and historian Stephen F. Cohen, who came to know many former Gulag inmates during his frequent trips to Moscow over a period of 30 years. Based on first-hand interviews with the victims themselves and on newly available materials, Cohen provides a powerful narrative of the survivors’ post-Gulag saga, from their liberation and return to Soviet society, to their long struggle to salvage what remained of their shattered lives and to obtain justice; showing that the struggle between anti-Stalinists and Stalinists is still under way in Russia today.
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( In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Coh...)
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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(An analysis of American policy in Russia since the collap...)
An analysis of American policy in Russia since the collapse of communism. Cohen argues that the American policy of transforming Russia into a replica of America was ill-conceived and counter-productive, and contributed to a great human tragedy. He then proposes a fundamentally different American-Russian relationship.
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(In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Stephen F. Coh...)
In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Stephen F. Cohen cuts through Cold War stereotypes of the Soviet Union to arrive at fresh interpretations of that country's traumatic history and its present-day political realities. Cohen's lucidly written, revisionist analysis reopens an array of major historical questions. As he probes Soviet history, society, and politics, Cohen demonstrates how this country has remained stable during its long journey from revolution to conservatism. It the process, he suggests more enlightened approaches to American/Soviet relations. Based on the author's many years of study and research, including numerous visits to the USSR, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of world affairs today.
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Cohen, Stephen Frand was born on November 25, 1938 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Son of Marvin Stafford and Ruth (Frand) Cohen.
Bachelor of Science, Indiana University, 1960. Master of Arts, Indiana University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1969.
Certified, Russian Institute, 1969.
Instructor, Columbia University, New York City, 1965-1968;
assistant professor politics, Princeton (New Jersey) U., New Jersey, 1968-1973;
associate professor, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1973-1980;
professor, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1980-1998;
professor emeritus, Princeton University, since 1998;
director Russian studies, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1973-1980, 88-94;
professor Russian studies and History, New York University, since 1998. Consultant on Russia, Columbia Broadcasting System news television commentator, since 1989. Correspondent and chief consultant Public Broadcasting Service films on Russia, since 1994.
Member of advisory county United States Academy Sciences, Washington, 1979-1982.
(This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise t...)
( Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has...)
( Stalin’s Reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been c...)
(An analysis of American policy in Russia since the collap...)
(In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Stephen F. Coh...)
(In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen...)
( In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Coh...)
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Board of directors New York University Center for the Media. Member Council Foreign Relations, American Political Science Association, American History Association, American Association for Advancement Slavic Studies.
Married Katrina vanden Heuvel. Children: Andrew, Alexandra, Nicola.