Soviet fates and lost alternatives : from Stalinism to the new Cold War / Stephen F. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Stephen F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Concentration camp inmates--Soviet Union.

Concentration camp inmates.

Cold War.

Post-communism--Russia (Federation).

Post-communism.

Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--History--1953-1985.

Soviet Union--History--1985-1991.

Soviet Union--Politics and government.

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--United States.

Russia (Federation).

United States--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation).

United States.

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022--Political and social views.

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 a

Contents:

Introduction: Alternatives and fates

Bukharin's fate

The victims return : gulag survivors since Stalin

The tragedy of Soviet conservatism

Was the Soviet system reformable?

The fate of the Soviet Union : why did it end?

Gorbachev's lost legacies

Who lost the post-Soviet peace?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613793126

9781281958969

1281958964

9780231520423

0231520425

OCLC:

827481383