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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... Cold - War Consensus and Missions Few academic fields have been so intimately related to American political and intellectual life as Soviet studies . The Soviet Union has long occupied an enormous , almost obsessive place in American ...
... Cold - War Consensus and Missions Few academic fields have been so intimately related to American political and intellectual life as Soviet studies . The Soviet Union has long occupied an enormous , almost obsessive place in American ...
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... cold - war origins not to besmirch Sovietology but to ask about their intellectual impact on the field . The profession itself has been of two minds on the question . Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s , the field's leaders generally ...
... cold - war origins not to besmirch Sovietology but to ask about their intellectual impact on the field . The profession itself has been of two minds on the question . Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s , the field's leaders generally ...
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... 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 remarkable number of able and honorable people became its founding professors and graduate students ...
... 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 remarkable number of able and honorable people became its founding professors and graduate students ...
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... cold war waned in the 1960s , those external circumstances changed and began to deprive the profession not only of funds , but also of intellectual purpose . It is said that scholars of China are enamored of its history , culture , and ...
... cold war waned in the 1960s , those external circumstances changed and began to deprive the profession not only of funds , but also of intellectual purpose . It is said that scholars of China are enamored of its history , culture , and ...
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... cold - war America in the and 1950s . First , the fervor of anti - Communism and Sovietophobia as an official and popular American ideology , which created a national political consensus , or “ bipartisanship , ” on large questions of ...
... cold - war America in the and 1950s . First , the fervor of anti - Communism and Sovietophobia as an official and popular American ideology , which created a national political consensus , or “ bipartisanship , ” on large questions of ...
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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