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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... Sovietologists , whose interpretations I criticize here , is also evident from my footnotes and from my other published work . Moreover , those of us who may loosely be called revisionists in our approaches to Soviet history disagree on ...
... Sovietologists , whose interpretations I criticize here , is also evident from my footnotes and from my other published work . Moreover , those of us who may loosely be called revisionists in our approaches to Soviet history disagree on ...
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... Sovietologists must , but my longstanding gratitude to him remains undiminished . Several other friends and colleagues read various chapters , giving me both strong criticism and encouragement . I thank them collectively here , if only ...
... Sovietologists must , but my longstanding gratitude to him remains undiminished . Several other friends and colleagues read various chapters , giving me both strong criticism and encouragement . I thank them collectively here , if only ...
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... Sovietologists say the crisis is financial , which is partly true . Academic Soviet studies fell victim to the revised attitudes and priorities of post - Vietnam , inflationary , budgetconscious America . Foundations and government ...
... Sovietologists say the crisis is financial , which is partly true . Academic Soviet studies fell victim to the revised attitudes and priorities of post - Vietnam , inflationary , budgetconscious America . Foundations and government ...
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... Sovietology , shaping its general outlook and scholarly agenda . Between the late 1940s and early 1960s , most Anglo - American Sovietologists embraced as axiomatic a set of interrelated interpretations to explain both the past and ...
... Sovietology , shaping its general outlook and scholarly agenda . Between the late 1940s and early 1960s , most Anglo - American Sovietologists embraced as axiomatic a set of interrelated interpretations to explain both the past and ...
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... Sovietologists managed to accomplish so much good empirical scholarship in such an interpretative straight - jacket . Otherwise , much was wrong with orthodox Sovietology , both as history and political science , as I argue throughout ...
... Sovietologists managed to accomplish so much good empirical scholarship in such an interpretative straight - jacket . Otherwise , much was wrong with orthodox Sovietology , both as history and political science , as I argue throughout ...
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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