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

by Stephen F. Cohen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231148976
• ISBN13: 9780231148979
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"