November 24, 2000

Is America to Blame? Two Scholars Debate 'Failed Crusade,' a New Book on Post-Communist Russia

Did American policymakers and scholars fail to see the truth about what really happened in Russia in the 1990's? Stephen F. Cohen, a prominent critic of U.S. policy toward Russia, thinks so.

In his latest and perhaps most controversial book, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia (W.W. Norton), Cohen blasts American officials, journalists, and scholars for complicity in what he considers the worst foreign-policy disaster since the Vietnam War.

Cohen,

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