Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917In 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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... Soviet Union ( editor ) The Great Purge Trial ( coeditor ) The Soviet Union Since Stalin ( coeditor ) Sovieticus : American Perceptions and Soviet Realities Rethinking the Soviet Experience Politics and History Since 1917 Stephen.
... Soviet Union ( editor ) The Great Purge Trial ( coeditor ) The Soviet Union Since Stalin ( coeditor ) Sovieticus : American Perceptions and Soviet Realities Rethinking the Soviet Experience Politics and History Since 1917 Stephen.
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... Soviet experience . Includes bibliographical references and index . 1. Soviet Union - Historiography . 2. Soviet Union --Study and teaching - History . I. Title . DK266.A33C64 1984 947'.00722 84-749 ISBN 978-0-19-504016-6 Printed in the ...
... Soviet experience . Includes bibliographical references and index . 1. Soviet Union - Historiography . 2. Soviet Union --Study and teaching - History . I. Title . DK266.A33C64 1984 947'.00722 84-749 ISBN 978-0-19-504016-6 Printed in the ...
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... Soviet history and politics from the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 to the present . That seeming incongruity requires an explanation . This book has two purposes , neither of them a full narrative history of the Soviet Union . One ...
... Soviet history and politics from the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 to the present . That seeming incongruity requires an explanation . This book has two purposes , neither of them a full narrative history of the Soviet Union . One ...
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... Soviet history disagree on important issues . That , too , is as scholarship should be , particularly in a field whose subject remains intensely controversial . My second purpose is to reexamine contemporary Soviet politics in the light ...
... Soviet history disagree on important issues . That , too , is as scholarship should be , particularly in a field whose subject remains intensely controversial . My second purpose is to reexamine contemporary Soviet politics in the light ...
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... history is not in textbooks , not in dead pages history is in our blood . " And yet most recent Western studies of Soviet politics have not been historical . As a result , many either fail to cast real light on truly fundamental factors ...
... history is not in textbooks , not in dead pages history is in our blood . " And yet most recent Western studies of Soviet politics have not been historical . As a result , many either fail to cast real light on truly fundamental factors ...
Contents
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2 Bolshevism and Stalinism | 38 |
3 Bukharin NEP and the Idea of an Alternative to Stalinism | 71 |
4 The Stalin Question Since Stalin | 93 |
Soviet Reformism and Conservatism | 128 |
Notes | 158 |
Index | 216 |
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Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917 Stephen F. Cohen Limited preview - 1986 |
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