On September 18, 2020, ACURA’s founder Stephen F. Cohen passed away. This week, to mark the one year anniversary of Steve’s death, we will be publishing tributes, remembrances and a number of his best articles and essays. We begin with the introduction to the forthcoming festschrift His Way: Remembering Stephen Cohen by Steve’s wife and collaborator of over thirty years, Katrina vanden Heuvel and the Russian scholar Gennady Bordiugov.- JWC