Böcker av Stephen Cohen

Lyrics, drawings, photos, sheet music, and thoughts about The Tree People and their return.The folk group, The Tree People, began with a recording that took place over a single weekend in 1979 at Rockin' A Ranch, a studio in the woods near Eugene, Oregon, with musicians Stephen Cohen, Jeff Stier, Rachel Laderman and James Thornbury. 1,000 vinyl records were pressed, and the self-titled album was released locally. Fast forward to one weekend in 2021 and The Return of the Tree People album was recorded at Dead Aunt Thelma's Studio in Portland, Oregon, with musicians Stephen Cohen, Rich Hinrichsen, Maeve Stier (daughter of the late Jeff Stier), John Savage, Jen Harrison and Ron Tuttle. The subsequent album and this book were released in 2022.

In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's preeminent opponent, and Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and his rival Yegor Ligachev, Cohen shows that their defeated policies were viable alternatives and that their tragic personal fates shaped the Soviet Union and Russia today. Cohen's ramifying arguments include that Stalinism was not the predetermined outcome of the Communist Revolution; that the Soviet Union was reformable and its breakup avoidable; and that the opportunity for a real post-Cold War relationship with Russia was squandered in Washington, not in Moscow. This is revisionist history at its best, compelling readers to rethink fateful events of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and the possibilities ahead.In his new epilogue, Cohen expands his analysis of U.S. policy toward post-Soviet Russia, tracing its development in the Clinton and Obama administrations and pointing to its initiation of a "e;new Cold War"e; that, he implies, has led to a fateful confrontation over Ukraine.