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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... literature from the late 1940s to the mid - 1960s . The standard textbook , published in 1953 and again in 1963 , stated the orthodoxy simply , as indeed it could be stated : “ Out of the totalitarian embryo would come totalitarianism ...
... literature from the late 1940s to the mid - 1960s . The standard textbook , published in 1953 and again in 1963 , stated the orthodoxy simply , as indeed it could be stated : “ Out of the totalitarian embryo would come totalitarianism ...
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... literature grew repetitious and intellectually stale , as it retold or amplified the basic story . Increasingly , promising graduate students chose other fields because they believed , wrongly , that “ all the big questions in Soviet ...
... literature grew repetitious and intellectually stale , as it retold or amplified the basic story . Increasingly , promising graduate students chose other fields because they believed , wrongly , that “ all the big questions in Soviet ...
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... literature of Sovietology includes a welter of nonacademic writers , from lapsed Communists and émigrés to government analysts and journalists . In short , a full history of Sovietology , which is beyond my purpose here , would have to ...
... literature of Sovietology includes a welter of nonacademic writers , from lapsed Communists and émigrés to government analysts and journalists . In short , a full history of Sovietology , which is beyond my purpose here , would have to ...
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... literature , and history . Proposals to develop Soviet studies were discussed by government officials and scholars , and prototype programs set up by the U.S. Army , the U.S. Navy , and one university while the United States and the ...
... literature , and history . Proposals to develop Soviet studies were discussed by government officials and scholars , and prototype programs set up by the U.S. Army , the U.S. Navy , and one university while the United States and the ...
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... literature noted approvingly , all Sovietological theories of the time were " designed to shape the behavior of the free world in its opposition to Communism . ” : 20 There was nothing unique or surprising about the politicization of ...
... literature noted approvingly , all Sovietological theories of the time were " designed to shape the behavior of the free world in its opposition to Communism . ” : 20 There was nothing unique or surprising about the politicization 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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