Stephen F. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton
University, where for many years he was also 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 has received several honors,
including two Guggenheim fellowships and a National Book Award
nomination.
Over the years, he has also been 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 has visited and lived in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
regularly for more than forty years.
Praise for Stephen F. Cohen’s Books
Bukharin and The Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography
“This magnificent book will come to be regarded … as one of the two
or three really outstanding studies in the history of the Soviet
Union of the past 25 years.”—The New York Review of Books
Rethinking the Soviet Experience
“[Cohen] clarifies Russian issues better than anyone has in the
past decade.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sovieticus: American Perceptions and Soviet Realities
“A model of scholarly journalism, sound and wonderfully
readable.”—Publishers Weekly
Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist
Russia
“A blistering, brilliant, and deeply felt critique of America’s
decade-long daydream of a Russia in transition.”—Kirkus Reviews
The Victims Return
“A striking memoir … Russians today are inheritors of an
unspeakably immense crime, and Cohen engages fully — and personally
— with the debate on the way they continue to grapple with their
Stalinist legacy.”—The New Yorker
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives
“An extraordinarily rich book …an absolutely vital beginning point
for anyone interested in a serious study of political and foreign
policy developments involving Russia.”—Slavic Review
“Cohen’s ideas about Russia, which once got him invited to Camp
David to advise a sitting president, now make him the most
controversial expert in the field.”—The Chronicle Review
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