PERSON: Stephen F. Cohen

Contributing Editor

Stephen Frand Cohen (November 25, 1938 – September 18, 2020) was an American scholar of Russian studies. His academic work concentrated on modern Russian history since the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia’s relationship with the United States.

Cohen was a contributing editor to The Nation magazine, published and partially owned by his wife Katrina vanden Heuvel. Cohen was a founding director of the 2015 reestablished American Committee for East–West Accord.

Cohen was a celebrated figure in the Sovietology academic field, earning plaudits even from those diametrically opposed to him ideologically. Richard Pipes, Cohen’s longtime academic rival, hailed him as “the second-brightest expert in the field.”

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