Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War

by Stephen F. Cohen

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In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's preeminent opponent, and Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and his rival Yegor Ligachev, Cohen shows that their defeated policies were viable alternatives and that their tragic personal fates shaped the Soviet Union and Russia today. Cohen's ramifying arguments...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0231148968

ISBN13:9780231148962

Release Date:June 2009

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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