STEPHEN F. COHEN is Professor Emeritus of Politics and Russian Studies at Princeton University and Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and History at New York University. He is the author of a number of widely acclaimed books on Russia, including Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography; Rethinking the Soviet Experience; and most recently Soviet Fates and Lost Lives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War. His new book Why the Cold War Again? will be published later this year. Cohen is also a contributoring editor to The Nation magazine and his articles have appeared worldwide.