"In this book, Stephen F. Cohen reveals what has really happened in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the complicity of U.S. policy in a great human tragedy. Drawing on many years of studying and living in Russia, Cohen shows that what American officials and other experts call "reform" has for most Russians been a catastrophe and for the United States the worst foreign policy disaster since Vietnam: the unprecedented demodernization and destabilization of a fully nuclearized twentieth-century country."--Jacket.

Russian collection.

I.Russia-Watching without Russia. -- The Crusade for the "Russia We Want" -- Transitionology. -- Russian Studies Without Russia. -- What Is to Be Done? -- II. The American Crusade and Post-Communist Russia: Folly and Tragedy, 1992-2000. -- What's Really Happening in Russia? (1992). -- A Cold Peace? (1992). -- Can America Convert Russia? (1993). -- "Parliament Is Burning!" (1993). -- America's Failed Crusade (1994). -- "Who Is to Blame?" (1995). -- Transition or Tragedy? (1996). -- The Other Russia (1997). -- Why Call It Reform? (1998). -- "Who Lost Russia?" (1998-2000) -- III. Toward a New Russia Policy. -- U.S. Policy on the Wrong Side of History. -- Does Russia Still Matter? -- Toward a New Russia Policy: Priorities and Premises. -- Reengaging Russia. -- The Owl of Minerva.