Why Cold War Again?: How America Lost Post-Soviet Russia

by Stephen F. Cohen

The new East-West conflict, which broke out over the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, but which long predated it and soon spread through Europe and to the Middle East, is potentially the worst US-Russian confrontation in more than fifty years and the most fateful. A negotiated resolution is possible, but time may be running out. In this book, renowned Russia scholar and media commentator Stephen F. Cohen traces the history of this East-West relationship in the 'Inter Cold War' period the years from the purported end of the preceding Cold War, in 1990-1991, to what he has long argued would be a new and even more dangerous Cold War. Cohen's historical and contemporary analysis is insightful, thought-provoking and essential reading for anyone seeking to understand relations between the West and post-Soviet Russia."

Genres: Russia, History

224 pages, Paperback

Expected publication June 30, 2050

About the author

Stephen F. Cohen was Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University, where for many years he served as director of the Russian Studies Program, and Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and History at New York University. He grew up in Owensboro, Kentucky, received his undergraduate and master’s degrees at Indiana University, and his Ph.D. at Columbia University.

Cohen’s other 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; (with Katrina vanden Heuvel) Voices of Glasnost: Interviews With Gorbachev’s Reformers; Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia; Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War; and The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin.

For his scholarly work, Cohen received several honors, including two Guggenheim fellowships and a National Book Award nomination.

Over the years, he was also a frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines, television, and radio. His “Sovieticus” column for The Nation won a 1985 Newspaper Guild Page One Award and for another Nation article a 1989 Olive Branch Award. For many years, Cohen was a consultant and on-air commentator on Russian affairs for CBS News. With the producer Rosemary Reed, he was also project adviser and correspondent for three PBS documentary films about Russia: Conversations With Gorbachev; Russia Betrayed?; and Widow of the Revolution.

Cohen visited and lived in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia regularly for more than forty years.

(source: Amazon)

Reviews

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stephen F. Cohen passed away about a month before the book's release

Robert C. Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen were the backbone of the Princeton Russian Studies Program
and i think two of the best Sovietologists of the Century

People will probably remember Stephen F. Cohen best as the Russian Affairs Analyst on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather for nine years best...

here is a very good summary of his lively views

Stephen F. Cohen in his Prime - December 1987 C-Span [24 min]
https://www.c-span.org/video/?304-1/s...

Russia Isn’t a Threat -Unresolved US National Security - Cohen and Mearsheimer take on the Neoliberals and the Neocons [2 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xg82...

Stephen F. Cohen with John Mearsheimer on Trump-Russia [4 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJBQi...

Stephen F. Cohen - On Russian Television in a Debate [49 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz4PG...

Stephen F. Cohen and Charlie Rose - August 14th 2013 [22min]
https://charlierose.com/videos/17234

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If you want to see Tucker speak to get a feel for him:

Robert Tucker - Russia Since the Communist Revolution - 1984 Interview [29 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85gY7...