{"product_id":"war-with-russia-from-putin-ukraine-to-trump-russiagate-9781510755468","title":"War with Russia?: From Putin \u0026 Ukraine to Trump \u0026 Russiagate","description":"\u003cb\u003ePrescient and even more relevant than when originally released in 2019, this Memorial Edition of \u003ci\u003eWar With Russia\u003c\/i\u003e ? provides keen perspective to help readers understand the current Ukraine crisis. Are we in a new Cold War with Russia? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West? \u003ci\u003eWar With Russia?\u003c\/i\u003e answers these questions and more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerica is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The Soviet Union is gone, but the two nuclear superpowers are again locked in political and military confrontations, now from Ukraine to Syria. All of this is exacerbated by Washington's warlike demonizing of the Kremlin leadership and by Russiagate's unprecedented allegations. US mainstream media accounts are highly selective and seriously misleading. American \"disinformation,\" not only Russian, is a growing peril. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWar With Russia?\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen F. Cohen--the widely acclaimed historian of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia--gives readers a very different, dissenting narrative of this more dangerous new Cold War from its origins in the 1990s, the actual role of Vladimir Putin, and the 2014 Ukrainian crisis to Donald Trump's election and today's unprecedented Russiagate allegations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCohen's views have made him, it is said, \"America's most controversial Russia expert.\" Some say this to denounce him, others to laud him as a bold, highly informed critic of US policies and the dangers they have helped to create. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWar With Russia?\u003c\/i\u003e gives readers a chance to decide for themselves who is right: are we living, as Cohen argues, in a time of unprecedented perils at home and abroad?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen F. Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e passed away on September 18, 2020, at the age of 81. He was 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, and received his undergraduate and master's degrees at Indiana University and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCohen's other books include \u003ci\u003eBukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Sovieticus: American Perceptions and Soviet Realities\u003c\/i\u003e(with Katrina vanden Heuvel); \u003ci\u003eVoices of Glasnost: Interviews With Gorbachev's Reformers\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor his scholarly work, Cohen eceived several honors, including two Guggenheim fellowships and a National Book Award nomination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the years, he had also been a frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines, television, and radio. His \"Sovieticus\" column for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003eConversations With Gorbachev\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Russia Betrayed?\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWidow of the Revolution.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCohen visited and lived in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia regularly for more than forty years.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hot Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181342884114,"sku":"9781510755468","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_253575ec-e763-4808-b178-962374095089.jpg?v=1744395183","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/war-with-russia-from-putin-ukraine-to-trump-russiagate-9781510755468","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}