Стивен Коэн: War with Russia?: From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate

US weapons supplied to, 143, 144–145

United States. See also US media

assault on Aleppo, 68

attitude toward post-Soviet Russia, 22–23, 24–25, 28–29

declaring war on Russia ( Meet the Press ), 67–68

double standards of, 125–127

foreign policy. See foreign policy

need for alliance with, 52–53

new Cold War with Russia. See new Cold War

policy toward post-Soviet Russia, 137–140

Putin’s attitude toward, 8

rogue-like behavior toward Russia, 48–49

Russiagate’s revelations about elites in, 157–160

sanctions against Russia, 197–201

shooting down Syrian military aircraft, 102–103

slavery in, 107–109

threats to Russia, 88, 209

Trump’s views on foreign policy of, 39–40

US-Russian cooperation against Syrian forces, 51–53, 56–57, 58–59, 60–61, 64

World War II, 98–99

worsening relations with Russia, October, 2016, 66–67

UN Security Council, 118, 125–126, 139, 178

US Department of Defense (DOD), 64, 103

US Intelligence Community Assessment, 82

US media

absence of glasnost and debate in, 110, 111, 112

author’s criticism of, xi-xii

civic courage and, 95

contributing to the new Cold War, 189

demonization of Putin and, 2, 5–6, 20–21, 135, 146

“details” missing from, 102–104

on diplomacy in Syria, 65

distortion of Russia in, 19–23

fact free narratives in, 96–97

fixated on Russiagate, 103

“information war” against Russia, 41–42

The John Batchelor Show , ix-x

limited debate on new Cold War, 13–14, 79–80

malpractice by, 146–149, 208

on militarization of new Cold War, 35

misrepresenting pro-Stalin sentiments in Russia, 46–48

on NATO, 192–193

promoting suspicion about Putin, 90–92

Putin blamed for Brexit by, 50–51

on Russiagate, 103–107, 120, 121, 183–184, 204, 208–209

Russiagate and elites, 159–160

on Russia hacking of DNC emails, 79, 81

Russian media and, 136–137

Times Manafort article, 57, 58

Trump-Putin connection, 89

on Trump-Putin summit meeting, 195

on Trump-Russia relations/“collusion”, 84–86, 93, 145

on Ukrainian crisis, 14, 21–22

US double standards and, 126–127

on “Wall of Sorrow” ceremony, 129

US-Russian proxy wars, 1, 7, 13, 24, 29, 187

vanden Heuvel, Katrina, xii-xiii, 110, 128

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, 87, 133

The Victims Return (Cohen), 46–47, 108, 128

“Wall of Sorrow” memorial, 128

Wall Street Journal , 2, 20, 56, 181

Warner, Mark, 121

Washington Post , 2, 19, 50, 56, 61, 62, 65, 66, 75, 79, 81, 88, 120, 126, 139, 147–148, 153, 158, 172, 177, 181, 184, 205, 212

Waters, Maxine, 121

West, the. See also Europe; United States

Putin’s alleged destabilization of, 112–115

Putin’s views on, 7–8

Russia leaving the, 115–118, 178

white supremacism, 6, 7, 126

WikiLeaks, 86–87

Wilson, Woodrow, 19, 197

Woodward, Bob, 208

World War II, 34, 61, 98–99, 180

Wyden, Ron, 6

Yanukovych, Viktor, 17, 22, 43, 57, 86, 114, 140, 144, 146

Yatsenyuk, Arseny, 36

Yeltsin, Boris, 2, 3, 4, 20, 57–58, 82, 112, 137, 146

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 94–95

Zinoviev, Aleksandr, 117

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 the 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.

He lives in New York City with his wife, Katrina vanden Heuvel, who is editor and publisher of The Nation . They have a daughter, Nicola (Nika). Cohen also has two other children, Andrew and Alexandra.

The Great Purge Trial (Co-Editor)

Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography

The Soviet Union Since Stalin (Co-Editor)

An End to Silence: Uncensored Opinion in the Soviet Union (Editor)

Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917

Sovieticus: American Perceptions and Soviet Realities

Voices of Glasnost: Interviews With Gorbachev’s Reformers (With Katrina vanden Heuvel)

Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia

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

The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin

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