War with Russia: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate

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Is America in a new Cold War with Russia How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the United States Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West What should Donald Trump and Americas allies do

America 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 Washingtons war-like demonizing of the Kremlin leadership and by Russiagates unprecedented allegations. US mainstream media accounts are highly selective and seriously misleading. American disinformation, not only Russian, is a growing peril.

In War With Russia, Stephen F. Cohenthe widely acclaimed historian of Soviet and post-Soviet Russiagives 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 Trumps election and todays unprecedented Russiagate allegations. Topics include:

• Distorting Russia
• US Follies and Media Malpractices 2016
• The Obama Administration Escalates Military Confrontation With Russia
• Was Putins Syria Withdrawal Really A Surprise
• Trump vs. Triumphalism
• Has Washington Gone Rogue
• Blaming Brexit on Putin and Voters
• Washington Warmongers, Moscow Prepares
• Trump Could End the New Cold War
• The Real Enemies of US Security
• Kremlin-Baiting President Trump
• Neo-McCarthyism Is Now Politically Correct
• Terrorism and Russiagate
• Cold-War News Not Fit to Print
• Has NATO Expansion Made Anyone Safer
• Why Russians Think America Is Attacking Them
• How Washington Provokedand Perhaps Losta New Nuclear-Arms Race
• Russia Endorses Putin, The US and UK Condemn Him (Again)
• Russophobia
• Sanction Mania

Cohens views have made him, it is said, Americas 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.

War With Russia 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

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Praise for Stephen F. Cohens 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 Americas 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


Cohens 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

Author Bio

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 masters degrees at Indiana University, and his Ph.D. at Columbia University.

Cohens 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 Gorbachevs 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.