Failed Crusade

America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia

By: Stephen F. Cohen

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Paperback | 1 November 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Failed Crusade is a deeply informed and passionate call for a fundamentally different American-Russian relationship in the post-Yeltsin era. Author Stephen Cohen shows that what US officials and other experts call "reform" has for most Russians been a catastrophic development—namely the unprecedented demodernization of a twentieth-century country—and for the United States the worst foreign policy disaster since Vietnam. What emerges is an alarming analysis of nuclear-laden Russia after 1991, representing an even greater threat to our national security than during the Cold War, and an indictment of American journalists and policy makers who failed to see or report the truth about the complicity of U.S. policy in a great human tragedy. This paperback edition has been updated to reflect the events of the last year. "Cohen writes with bracing clarity on a subject obscured by euphemisms and double talk."—Robert D. Kaplan, New York Times Book Review. What really happened in Russia after the end of the Soviet Union, and how badly experts and the media misjudged it.

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Cohen writes with bracing clarity on a subject obscured by euphemisms and double talk.--Robert D. Kaplan "New York Times Book Review"

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Introduction	p. xi
Preface to the Updated Edition	p. xiv
Russia-Watching Without Russia	p. 1
The Crusade for the "Russia We Want"	p. 8
Transitionology	p. 23
Russian Studies Without Russia	p. 31
What Is to Be Done?	p. 48
The American Crusade and Post-Communist Russia: Folly and Tragedy, 1992-2001	p. 73
What's Really Happening in Russia? (1992)	p. 78
A Cold Peace? (1992)	p. 103
Can America Convert Russia? (1993)	p. 114
"Parliament Is Burning!" (1993)	p. 124
America's Failed Crusade (1994)	p. 135
"Who Is to Blame?" (1995)	p. 144
Transition or Tragedy? (1996)	p. 151
The Other Russia (1997)	p. 156
Why Call It Reform? (1998)	p. 168
"Who Lost Russia?" (1998-2001)	p. 171
Toward a New Russia Policy	p. 189
U.S. Policy on the Wrong Side of History	p. 192
Does Russia Still Matter?	p. 208
Toward a New Russia Policy: Priorities and Premises	p. 218
Reengaging Russia	p. 229
The Owl of Minerva	p. 258
Notes	p. 279
Index	p. 335
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