The Cold War: A World History.
In: Journal of Cold War Studies, Jg. 24 (2022), Heft 1, S. 254-258
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Westad's focus on the I longue durée i of ideological conflict invites the counterargument that the ideological contradictions between Communism and capitalism in the nineteenth century, though certainly part of the general backdrop of the Cold War's ideological character, should not themselves be considered part and parcel of the Cold War. Odd Arne Westad's I The Cold War: A World History i is a difficult book to review because it is so good. But his own analysis of the crucial post-1945 origins of the Cold War does not support his insistence that the Cold War "was born from the global transformations of the late nineteenth century" (p. 5) or his conclusion that "the ideological Cold War, which predated this state system by almost two generations, disappeared [in 1991] only in part" (p. 617). [Extracted from the article]
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The Cold War: A World History.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Naimark, Norman M. |
Zeitschrift: | Journal of Cold War Studies, Jg. 24 (2022), Heft 1, S. 254-258 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | review |
ISSN: | 1520-3972 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1162/jcws_r_01063 |
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