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 school taught about contemporary ( and future ) Soviet politics rested heavily upon an equally general consensus about every important period and event in Soviet history , from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the ...
... totalitarianism school taught about contemporary ( and future ) Soviet politics rested heavily upon an equally general consensus about every important period and event in Soviet history , from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the ...
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... totalitarianism school , mainly as efforts to refine the consensus . ' But I have not seriously distorted that basic rendition and interpretation of almost four decades of Soviet history and politics ; they pre- vailed , in one form or ...
... totalitarianism school , mainly as efforts to refine the consensus . ' But I have not seriously distorted that basic rendition and interpretation of almost four decades of Soviet history and politics ; they pre- vailed , in one form or ...
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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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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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