The Soviet Union, Gorbachev, and American Policy

Stephen Cohen

Monday, 09 Nov 1987 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Part of the World Affairs Series: Breaking Barriers - The USSR and The US
Stephen F. Cohen attended Indiana University, where he earned a B.S. degree and an M.A. degree in Russian Studies and received his Ph.D. in government and Russian studies at Columbia University, became a professor of politics and Russian studies at Princeton University in 1968, where he taught until 1998. Since 1998, Cohen has been professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University, where he teaches a course titled Russia Since 1917. He has written several books including those listed below. He is also a CBS News consultant as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Books: The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin; Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War;Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia; Voices of Glasnost: Interviews With Gorbachev's Reformers; Sovieticus: American Perceptions and Soviet Realities; An End to Silence: Uncensored Opinion in the Soviet Union, from Roy Medvedev's Underground Magazine "Political Diary"; and Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938.
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