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

Stephen F. Cohen

June, 2009
Cloth, 328 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14896-2
$28.50 / £19.50

Introduction: Alternatives and Fates

1. Bukharin’s Fate

2. The Victims Return: Gulag Survivors Since Stalin

3. The Tragedy of Soviet Conservatism

4. Was the Soviet System Reformable?

5. The Fate of the Soviet Union: Why Did It End?

6. Gorbachev’s Lost Legacies

7. Who Lost the Post-Soviet Peace?

About the Notes

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• European and UK Politics
• European History
• History
• Politics and Political Theory

About the Author

Stephen F. Cohen is professor of Russian studies and history at New York University and professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University. His books include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography; Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917; Sovieticus: American Perceptions and Soviet Realities; and Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia.

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