http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/stephen-kotkin Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 15 May 2026 05:41:02 -0400 Fri, 15 May 2026 05:41:02 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/116/book-review-stephen-kotkins-armageddon-averted By Peter Crowley - As the world's first real Marxist experiment, the Soviet Union, by virtue of lasting seventy odd years, proved Western intelligentsia wrong. The latter had long thought it was doomed to fail. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union disintegrated two years later, Western conservatives and liberals alike felt vindicated. United States conservatives would point to Reagan's military arms buildup which the Soviet Union could not keep pace with, while liberal capitalists believed in the inherent unfeasibility of a nonmarket system. Contrary to these suppositions, Stephen Kotkin's Armageddon... Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:13 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/116/book-review-stephen-kotkins-armageddon-averted