Stephen Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies at New York University and Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia and Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
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