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War with Russia?: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate Paperback – February 1, 2019

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Is America in a new Cold War with Russia? How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the United States? Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West? What should Donald Trump and America’s allies do?

America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the twentieth century. The Soviet Union is gone, but the two nuclear superpowers are again locked in political and military confrontations, now from Ukraine to Syria. All of this is exacerbated by Washington’s war-like demonizing of the Kremlin leadership and by Russiagate’s unprecedented allegations. US mainstream media accounts are highly selective and seriously misleading. American “disinformation,” not only Russian, is a growing peril.

In War With Russia?, Stephen F. Cohen—the widely acclaimed historian of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia—gives readers a very different, dissenting narrative of this more dangerous new Cold War from its origins in the 1990s, the actual role of Vladimir Putin, and the 2014 Ukrainian crisis to Donald Trump’s election and today’s unprecedented Russiagate allegations. Topics include:

Distorting Russia
US Follies and Media Malpractices 2016
The Obama Administration Escalates Military Confrontation With Russia
Was Putin’s Syria Withdrawal Really A “Surprise”?
Trump vs. Triumphalism
Has Washington Gone Rogue?
Blaming Brexit on Putin and Voters
Washington Warmongers, Moscow Prepares
Trump Could End the New Cold War
The Real Enemies of US Security
Kremlin-Baiting President Trump
Neo-McCarthyism Is Now Politically Correct
Terrorism and Russiagate
Cold-War News Not “Fit to Print”
Has NATO Expansion Made Anyone Safer?
Why Russians Think America Is Attacking Them
How Washington Provoked—and Perhaps Lost—a New Nuclear-Arms Race
Russia Endorses Putin, The US and UK Condemn Him (Again)
Russophobia
Sanction Mania

Cohen’s views have made him, it is said, “America’s most controversial Russia expert.” Some say this to denounce him, others to laud him as a bold, highly informed critic of US policies and the dangers they have helped to create.

War With Russia? gives readers a chance to decide for themselves who is right: are we living, as Cohen argues, in a time of unprecedented perils at home and abroad?

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“A fantastic new book, which you should read.” —Tucker Carlson

“Cohen sees himself as a balancer, getting readers to see the other side. He laments what he terms ‘Russophobia’ among much of the American political class as well as high-profile journalists and academics. … At times, Cohen is a provocateur, but if he compels us to sharpen our analysis by examining a contrarian position, this is not such a bad thing. He often brings to light questions that others have neglected. He is especially adept at taking sometimes unfocused or ideologically eccentric views emanating from Russia and turning them into succinct, declarative statements. This alone is helpful. In our current volatile climate, dissenting voices are necessary to the conversation.”—Military Review journal, review essay by Robert F. Baumann, PhD

“The title of Cohen’s book is intended not as a prophecy but a warning. In the overexcited debate about Putin and Trump, Cohen chooses to eschew moderation because he believes that in practice that results in conformity with an anti-Russia narrative that is not only wrong but dangerous. This book will delight his supporters and enrage his opponents, while readers of a moderate persuasion will be able to admire the passion and tenacity of his resistance to the trend towards provoking war with Russia.” —Irish Times, reviewed by Geoffrey Roberts, emeritus professor of history at University College Cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy

"It’s a page-turner."—Consortium News, reviewed by Ann Garrison

Praise for Stephen F. Cohen’s Books

Bukharin and The Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography
“This magnificent book will come to be regarded … as one of the two or three really outstanding studies in the history of the Soviet Union of the past 25 years.”—The New York Review of Books

Rethinking the Soviet Experience
“[Cohen] clarifies Russian issues better than anyone has in the past decade.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

Sovieticus: American Perceptions and Soviet Realities
“A model of scholarly journalism, sound and wonderfully readable.”—Publishers Weekly

Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia
“A blistering, brilliant, and deeply felt critique of America’s decade-long daydream of a Russia in transition.”—Kirkus Reviews

The Victims Return
“A striking memoir … Russians today are inheritors of an unspeakably immense crime, and Cohen engages fully — and personally — with the debate on the way they continue to grapple with their Stalinist legacy.”—The New Yorker

Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives
“An extraordinarily rich book …an absolutely vital beginning point for anyone interested in a serious study of political and foreign policy developments involving Russia.”—Slavic Review

“Cohen’s ideas about Russia, which once got him invited to Camp David to advise a sitting president, now make him the most controversial expert in the field.”—The Chronicle Review

About the Author

Stephen F. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University, where for many years he was also director of the Russian Studies Program, and Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and History at New York University. He grew up in Owensboro, Kentucky, received his undergraduate and master’s degrees at Indiana University, and his Ph.D. at Columbia University.

Cohen’s other books include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography; Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917; Sovieticus: American Perceptions and Soviet Realities; (with Katrina vanden Heuvel) Voices of Glasnost: Interviews With Gorbachev’s Reformers; Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia; Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War; and The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin.

For his scholarly work, Cohen has received several honors, including two Guggenheim fellowships and a National Book Award nomination.

Over the years, he has also been a frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines, television, and radio. His “Sovieticus” column for The Nation won a 1985 Newspaper Guild Page One Award and for another Nation article a 1989 Olive Branch Award. For many years, Cohen was a consultant and on-air commentator on Russian affairs for CBS News. With the producer Rosemary Reed, he was also project adviser and correspondent for three PBS documentary films about Russia: Conversations With Gorbachev; Russia Betrayed?; and Widow of the Revolution.

Cohen has visited and lived in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia regularly for more than forty years.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hot Books; First Edition (February 1, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1510745815
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1510745810
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,235,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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K. Johnson
Everyone should read this book
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2023
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Why is this book not a best-seller?

It's one of the most informative books on the recent Russian-Ukraine conflict and it was published before the Putin invasion on February 24, 2022. Stephen F. Cohen recently passed away. He was a stellar scholar with decades of experience. If you've been following the US media to get your information on this conflict then.... The facts and names of prominent current and past leaders can allow you (the reader) to further delve into this topic on your own by using this book as a base.

Since the invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022 there have been some authors hurriedly writing and publishing books to cash in on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. There's even a recently released biography on Putin, which makes a common omission: US Meddling and brazen Neo-Con involvement in Ukraine that has been a significant reason for this war. It's one of the largest factors leading to this war.

One does not have to agree with the Russian narrative nor specifically Putin's narrative to look at factual occurrences that have been censored throughout the entire US media. And noting this does not make anyone a "Putin puppet, Friend of the Kremlin, Putin supporter or stooge of Putin." These accusations toward Cohen and many others from US politicians, polemicists, and pundits have been not only inaccurate but irresponsible because of the potential consequences of where this conflict may lead

Some background:

Putin's speech in Bucharest in 2007
Putin's speech in Munich in 2008
Shakashvili's move in South Ossetia in 2008
Kosovo 1999 - the US led NATO strikes and annexation of Koso into NATO.
Maiden revolution in Ukraine in 2014
Several events since 2014.

There is a belief that author of "War with Russia?" Stephen F. Cohen has been backlisted by the US mainstream-political media. The US American-Political-Mainstream Media does this by simply not inviting one to interviews on TV and having journalists ignore one's work.

War with Russia should be read by anyone interested in the sad and current Russian-Ukraine-Europe-NATO conflict. Don't let the price of the Kindle edition make this book seem less stellar than it is.

The American-Political Media, a term Cohen uses that is apt, shows the manipulative messaging, omissions, and false narratives repeatedly played out regarding media coverage of Russia, Putin, NATO, Ukraine. and others.

President Obama and Trump's attempt to open up more and be less adversarial towards Russia was met by resistance from many agencies throughout the government.

Why is this book not a best-seller? Or, at least more widely known of? Answer: In my opinion, because of censorship by omission.

Every American should read this book.

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P. Philips
"In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act"
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2018
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"In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" is a well known quotation (but probably not of George Orwell). And in telling the truth about Russia and that the current "war of nerves" is not in the interests of either the American People or national security, Professor Cohen in this book has in fact done a revolutionary act.

Like a denizen of Plato's cave, or being in the film the Matrix, most people have no idea what the truth is. And the questions raised by Professor Cohen are a great service in the cause of the truth. As Professor Cohen writes in his introduction To His Readers:

"My scholarly work—my biography of Nikolai Bukharin and essays collected in Rethinking the Soviet Experience and Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives, for example—has always been controversial because it has been what scholars term “revisionist”—reconsiderations, based on new research and perspectives, of prevailing interpretations of Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history. But the “controversy” surrounding me since 2014, mostly in reaction to the contents of this book, has been different—inspired by usually vacuous, defamatory assaults on me as “Putin’s No. 1 American Apologist,” “Best Friend,” and the like. I never respond specifically to these slurs because they offer no truly substantive criticism of my arguments, only ad hominem attacks. Instead, I argue, as readers will see in the first section, that I am a patriot of American national security, that the orthodox policies my assailants promote are gravely endangering our security, and that therefore we—I and others they assail—are patriotic heretics. Here too readers can judge."

Cohen, Stephen F.. War with Russia (Kindle Locations 131-139). Hot Books. Kindle Edition.

Professor Cohen is indeed a patriot of the highest order. The American and "Globalists" elites, particularly the dysfunctional United Kingdom, are engaging in a war of nerves with Russia. This war, which could turn nuclear for reasons discussed in this important book, is of no benefit to any person or nation.

Indeed, with the hysteria on "climate change" isn't it odd that other than Professor Cohen's voice, there are no prominent figures warning of the devastation that nuclear war would bring?

If you are a viewer of one of the legacy media outlets, be it Cable Television networks, with the exception of Tucker Carlson on Fox who has Professor Cohen as a frequent guest, or newspapers such as The New York Times, you have been exposed to falsehoods by remarkably ignorant individuals; ignorant of history, of the true nature of Russia (which defeated the Nazis in Europe at a loss of millions of lives) and most important, of actual military experience. America is neither an invincible or exceptional nation. And for those familiar with terminology of ancient history, it appears the so-called elites are suffering from hubris.

I cannot recommend Professor Cohen's work with sufficient superlatives; his arguments are erudite, clearly stated, supported by the facts and ultimately irrefutable. If enough people find Professor Cohen's work and raise their voices to their oblivious politicians and profiteers from war to stop further confrontation between Russia and America, then this book has served a noble purpose.

If nothing else, educate yourself by reading this work to discover what the *truth* is. And the truth is something sacred.

America and the world owe Professor Cohen a great debt. "Blessed are the peace makers..."

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Rodrigo Barreda Maza
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Reviewed in Germany on May 11, 2024
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thegreenlight
Basic reading
Reviewed in Spain on May 1, 2024
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A very good book written by someone who unrortunetly passed away that gives a true insight of what IS really going on in the Russia/Ukraine conflict regardless of all the líes And propaganda spread by These toxic neocons in Washington,London,París And Berlín

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Thomas D.
Another author delves into the truth.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2024
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What a pity we have lost this man. Hopefully his writing's will bring sanity back to East West relationships, expose the West's Neo-cons for what they are and let the sane men and women from both sides carry us to a better future. After reading this book I'm aghast about how America and the west have handled Russia's relationship with them.

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Well written.
Reviewed in Canada on January 4, 2021
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Good entertainment.

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Jack D.
Essential reading, brilliant book
Reviewed in Italy on November 19, 2021
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The late Professor Cohen takes us on an informed journey of events that have transpired since the end of the first cold war. Written as a running commentary in the style of a diary I find the material accurate, thought provoking and well referenced. The author uses good reasoning to paint a picture of the Russian theatre since the 2014 Maidan troubles in the Ukraine.

The book is educational and factual and provides a particularly balanced strategic account of American double standards and EU involvement with the Ukraine, the Ukrainian response, as well as a well informed commentary on the Russian perspectives and their government's response to the situation. It especially highlights potential worries for a nuclear confrontation that were current at the time of publishing that connects well to the unfortunate escalation we are currently witnessing.

I stopped studying the Russian situation when the last cold war ended. This book provides an excellent refresher and prepares one to look at other more detailed literature about the events since. It also "averages" out the major players and key concerns in world politics in the intermediate term.

I would recommend this book strongly.

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