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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... totalitarianism school . It was , for all practical academic purposes , the only school of Sovietology , an orthodoxy , for almost twenty years . Much has since been written for and against totalitarianism as 4 RETHINKING THE SOVIET ...
... totalitarianism school . It was , for all practical academic purposes , the only school of Sovietology , an orthodoxy , for almost twenty years . Much has since been written for and against totalitarianism as 4 RETHINKING THE SOVIET ...
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... totalitarianism as a model , or paradigm , in political science . But it was equally the orthodox school of Sovietological history - writing . Indeed , history and political science were almost indistinguishable disciplines in original ...
... totalitarianism as a model , or paradigm , in political science . But it was equally the orthodox school of Sovietological history - writing . Indeed , history and political science were almost indistinguishable disciplines in original ...
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... totalitarianism had to abate somewhat during the war with Germany in 1941-45 . But it then reemerged — a mon- olithic , ideological , terroristic party - state , headed by Stalin , ruling omnipotently over a passive , frozen society of ...
... totalitarianism had to abate somewhat during the war with Germany in 1941-45 . But it then reemerged — a mon- olithic , ideological , terroristic party - state , headed by Stalin , ruling omnipotently over a passive , frozen society of ...
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... totalitarian logic " on an im- potent , victimized society , thereby largely excluding the stuff of real politics - the ... totalitarianism school might have played a useful role by provoking criticism and rival interpretations . But the ...
... totalitarian logic " on an im- potent , victimized society , thereby largely excluding the stuff of real politics - the ... totalitarianism school might have played a useful role by provoking criticism and rival interpretations . But the ...
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... totalitarianism ” worsened and as American officials decided " that the cold war is in fact a real war in which the survival of the free world is at stake . " 15 Academic Sovietology developed accordingly . A remark- able number of able ...
... totalitarianism ” worsened and as American officials decided " that the cold war is in fact a real war in which the survival of the free world is at stake . " 15 Academic Sovietology developed accordingly . A remark- able number of able ...
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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