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Stephen Cohen is the foremost Russian scientist in the USA. His academic work concentrates on developments in Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the country's relationship with the United States.
Stephen Cohen was born in a rural town in Kentucky and attended Indiana University, where he majored in Economics and Publicy Policy. Through IU, he went on a six-week trip to Russia, where he fell in love with Russian history. After leaving Columbia University with his M.A. & Ph.D., Cohen taught as a visiting professor at Princeton University under the tutelage of renowned Russian scientist Robert Tucker.
Cohen is well known in both Russian and American circles. He is a close personal friend of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, advised former President George H.W. Bush when the Soviet Union collapsed, helped Nikolay Bukharin's widow rehabilitate his name during the Soviet era, and met Stalin's daughter, Svetlana. A funny story goes that Robert Tucker invited Cohen over for dinner only so he could meet Svetlana to teach her golf.
Cohen has been a member of New York University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences , where he teaches the immensely popular "Russia since 1917" course. He has authored several books; including, Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917, Buhkarin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938, and most recently, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia.He is also a CBS News Consultant and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Cohen is married to Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the noted left-wing publication, The Nation, where he is also a contributing editor. They have one daughter.
Ph.D. 1969 (Government and Russian Studies) Columbia University M.A. 1962 (Government and Russian Studies) Columbia University B.S. 1960 (Economics and Public Policy) Indiana University
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The Nation www.thenation.com
NYU College of Arts and Sciences ]
Stephen Cohen's lectures, Russia Since 1917. Spring Semster, 2005. NYU.