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 moreenlightened 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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Page ix
... critical of my own profession of Soviet studies . For reasons that I try to explain fully in the first chapter , academic Sovietology has too often based its prevailing wisdom on gray stereotypes , concepts of an immutable Soviet system ...
... critical of my own profession of Soviet studies . For reasons that I try to explain fully in the first chapter , academic Sovietology has too often based its prevailing wisdom on gray stereotypes , concepts of an immutable Soviet system ...
Page 19
... critically . The American con- text , no less than the Soviet one , discouraged that mission . Cold - war ideology and ... critical- minded and wrong , and made scholarly concepts hard and orthodox . The result was an intellectual legacy ...
... critically . The American con- text , no less than the Soviet one , discouraged that mission . Cold - war ideology and ... critical- minded and wrong , and made scholarly concepts hard and orthodox . The result was an intellectual legacy ...
Page 174
... critical point , see Tucker , The Soviet Political Mind , p . 19 . 5. Perhaps the first writer to argue that Stalin's policies should be termed " Stalinism " and " not Marxism or even Leninism " was the American correspondent Walter ...
... critical point , see Tucker , The Soviet Political Mind , p . 19 . 5. Perhaps the first writer to argue that Stalin's policies should be termed " Stalinism " and " not Marxism or even Leninism " was the American correspondent Walter ...
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