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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... later developments in the Soviet and other Communist parties . Chapter 4 explores the profoundly divisive impact of the Stalinist past on Soviet political life after Stalin . And Chapter 5 argues that large political conflicts running ...
... later developments in the Soviet and other Communist parties . Chapter 4 explores the profoundly divisive impact of the Stalinist past on Soviet political life after Stalin . And Chapter 5 argues that large political conflicts running ...
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... later academic life ? The answer lies largely , it seems , outside of Sovietology itself . Cold - War Consensus and Missions Few academic fields have been so intimately related to American political and intellectual life as Soviet ...
... later academic life ? The answer lies largely , it seems , outside of Sovietology itself . Cold - War Consensus and Missions Few academic fields have been so intimately related to American political and intellectual life as Soviet ...
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... some that were covert and later troublesome . As a result , academic Soviet studies became , by the 1950s , a highly politicized profession imbued with topical political concerns , a crusading spirit. gave Іо RETHINKING THE SOVIET ...
... some that were covert and later troublesome . As a result , academic Soviet studies became , by the 1950s , a highly politicized profession imbued with topical political concerns , a crusading spirit. gave Іо RETHINKING THE SOVIET ...
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... later , when political times had changed , had other concerns and , it has been argued , different illusions . But the politicization of an academic field does have serious intellectual consequences . The growth and scholarly vigor of ...
... later , when political times had changed , had other concerns and , it has been argued , different illusions . But the politicization of an academic field does have serious intellectual consequences . The growth and scholarly vigor of ...
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... later , even after the advent of American - Soviet détente , some Sovietologists still insisted that the profession provide American government officials with “ uniform answers to the questions they must put on the nature of Soviet ...
... later , even after the advent of American - Soviet détente , some Sovietologists still insisted that the profession provide American government officials with “ uniform answers to the questions they must put on the nature of Soviet ...
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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