Stephen F. Cohen, <i>Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War</i>. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xiv + 308 pp. $28.50
Journal: Journal of Cold War Studies
Year: 2016

Even if this book had appeared anonymously, the reader could have recognized the authorship of Stephen F. Cohen. The volume is a formidable accomplishment, consisting of seven related but diverse essays. The text itself is just under 200 pages, and it carries footnotes covering almost another 100 pages. This is vintage Cohen: from depicting Nikolai Bukharin's tragic place in Soviet history to recounting Mikhail Gorbachev's enormous accomplishments—which Cohen feels are not properly appreciated—a