Steve was a great scholar, and intrepid speaker of the truth about the

lunacy of "Russia-gate." For this he was blacklisted by the media—few

outlets would publish him, or interview him, for all his expertise—and

shunned by many gutless academics.

I'm proud to say he came to my class at NYU, "The Culture Industries,"

to talk about the media's relentless anti-Russian propaganda, and the

near-impossibility for dissidents to get a hearing.

MCM

Stephen F. Cohen, Influential Historian of Russia, Dies at 81

He chronicled Stalin’s tyrannies and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he was an enthusiastic admirer of Mikhail Gorbachev.

The historian Stephen F. Cohen, the author of several books about Russia, in 1999 with an assortment of Russian leaders in doll form.Credit...Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times

By Robert D. McFadden

Published Sept. 18, 2020Updated Sept. 19, 2020, 9:37 a.m. ET

Stephen F. Cohen, an eminent historian whose books and commentaries on Russia examined the rise and fall of Communism, Kremlin dictatorships and the emergence of a post-Soviet nation still struggling for identity in the 21st century, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81.

His wife, Katrina vanden Heuvel, the publisher and part owner of The Nation, said the cause was lung cancer.

From the sprawling conflicts of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the tyrannies of Stalin to the collapse of the Soviet Union and Vladimir V. Putin’s intrigues to retain power, Professor Cohen chronicled a Russia of sweeping social upheavals and the passions and poetry of peoples that endured a century of wars, political repression and economic hardships.

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