Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia - Cold War History Book | US-Russia Relations Analysis | Political Science Reading for Scholars & History Enthusiasts
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What really happened in Russia after the end of the Soviet Union, and how badly experts and the media misjudged it.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.
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Stephen Cohen's "Failed Crusade" - published in 2000 - offers a scathing review of the original Bush and Clinton Administration's approach to the transition of the Soviet Union to the Russian Federation, especially exploring how American officials, media, and Russia watchers ignored the deep problems of the Yeltsin government and endorsed its horribly self-destructive and corrupt policies in the name of democratization in Moscow.Mr. Cohen goes on to explore how - keeping in mind the date of publishing - Washington could right the ship and chart a better path forward on relations with Russia. Tragically, many of his suggestions went unheard. He suggested that we may find ourselves facing a resurgent Russia with new imperialist ambitions due to our own hubris in how we anointed corrupt leaders during the Soviet collapse. His words are deeply depressing read today as the war in Ukraine approaches its second year anniversary.
