{"product_id":"soviet-fates-and-lost-alternatives-from-stalinism-to-the-new-cold-war","title":"Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSoviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eStephen Cohen\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780231148979\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eColumbia University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e342\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War | Stephen Cohen | Paperback | 9780231148979 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks D 1760386","offer_id":49199086272664,"sku":"1760386","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71H9wmdl_VL.jpg?v=1780694756","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/soviet-fates-and-lost-alternatives-from-stalinism-to-the-new-cold-war","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}