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(Historian)
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BornStephen Frand Cohen
November 25, 1938
Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
DiedSeptember 18, 2020 (Age 81)
NationalityUS
EducationMA, BA, P.H.D
Alma materIndiana University, Columbia University
OccupationAuthor and Historian
ReligionJew
Spouse • Lynne Blair
• Katrina vanden Heuvel
Member ofThe Nation
Interests • Russia
• New Cold War
Interest of"Philip Cross"
An American scholar of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University. He received lots of vitriol for his opposition to the New Cold War from 2014-.

Not to be confused with Stephen Cohen (entrepreneur) who cofounded Palantir.

Cohen's Wikipedia page has been heavily edited by suspected intelligence operative Philip Cross (screenshot)[1].

Stephen Frand Cohen is an American scholar of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University. His academic work concentrates on modern Russian history since the Bolshevik Revolution and the country's relationship with the United States.

He was a prominent opponent of the New Cold War, something which made him lots of enemies in the deep state. His Wikipedia entry has been edited by the suspected intelligence operative [Philip Cross]].

Education and career

Stephen F. Cohen's grandfather, while speaking only Lithuanian, Russian and Yiddish, emigrated from Lithuania (then part of the USSR) to the United States.[2] Stephen Cohen was born in 1938 in Owensboro, Kentucky where his father owned a golf course,[3] and attended Indiana University Bloomington, where he earned a B.S. degree and an M.A. degree in Russian Studies. While studying in England, he went on a four-week trip to the Soviet Union, where he became interested in its history and politics. Cohen, who 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, and has been teaching at New York University since.

Cohen is well known in both Russian and American circles. He is a close personal friend of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, advised former U.S. President George H. W. Bush in the late 1980s, helped Nikolai Bukharin's widow, Anna Larina, rehabilitate her name during the Soviet era, and met Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana

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 previously taught at Princeton University. 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.

Cohen has a son and a daughter from his first marriage to opera singer Lynne Blair, from whom he is divorced. Cohen is now married to Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the magazine The Nation, where he is also a contributing editor. They have one daughter.

New Cold War

Ukraine

During the unrest in Ukraine, Cohen drew criticism for his allegedly "pro-Russian" views[4] with sources describing him as an apologist for Putin[5][6] and the Russian government.[4] Cohen personally describes himself as an American "dissenter" and argues that the media stifles anyone who even tries to understand the situation from the Kremlin's perspective while stigmatizing them as Putin apologists for doing so.

US-Russia relations

Cohen asserts that US foreign policy is responsible for the continuation of Cold War hostilities between the two countries despite its terminus in 1991, citing NATO's eastward expansion as evidence for his hypothesis.[7][8]

Publications

Books

  • Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War ISBN 978-0-231-14897-9 Pub. 2011 by Columbia University Press
  • The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin ISBN 978-1-933002-40-8 Pub. 2010 by PublishingWorks
  • Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War ISBN 978-0-231-14896-2 Pub. 2009 by Columbia University Press
  • Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia ISBN 978-1-933002-40-8 Updated edition Pub. 2000 by W. W. Norton & Company
  • Voices of Glasnost: Interviews With Gorbachev's Reformers ISBN 978-0-393-02625-2 Pub. 1989 by W W Norton & Co Inc
  • Sovieticus: American Perceptions and Soviet Realities ISBN 978-0-393-30338-4 Pub. 1986 by W W Norton & Co.
  • Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History since 1917 ISBN 978-0-19-504016-6 Pub.1985 by Oxford University Press
  • An End to Silence: Uncensored Opinion in the Soviet Union, from Roy Medvedev's Underground Magazine "Political Diary" ISBN 978-0-393-30127-4 Pub.1982 Norton
  • Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 ISBN 978-0-19-502697-9 Pub.1980 by Oxford University Press

Essays - Articles

  • The Friends and Foes of Change. Reformism and Conservatism in the Soviet Union in: Alexander Dallin/Gail W. Lapidus (eds.): The Soviet System. From Crisis to Collapse, Westview Press, Boulder/San Francisco/Oxford 2005 ISBN 0-8133-1876-9

 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/202222 May 202226 May 2022Switzerland
World Economic Forum
1912 guests in Davos
Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.



References

  • Stephen Cohen's lectures, Russia Since 1917. Spring Semester, 2008. NYU.

External links

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