Red globalization : the political economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev
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Bibliographic Information
Red globalization : the political economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev
(New studies in European history)
Cambridge University Press, 2016, c2014
- : paperback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-268) and index
"First paperback edition 2016" -- t.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Was the Soviet Union a superpower? Red Globalization is a significant rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony challenges the idea that the Soviet Union represented a parallel socio-economic construct to the liberal world economy. Instead he shows that the USSR, a middle-income country more often than not at the mercy of global economic forces, tracked the same path as other countries in the world, moving from 1930s autarky to the globalizing processes of the postwar period. In examining the constraints and opportunities afforded the Soviets in their engagement of the capitalist world, he questions the very foundations of the Cold War narrative as a contest between superpowers in a bipolar world. Far from an economic force in the world, the Soviets managed only to become dependent providers of energy to the rich world, and second-best partners to the global South.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Isolation: 1. Depression Stalinism
- 2. Postwar: the Bretton Woods Cold War
- Part II. Aspiration: 3. Restoration: resuming the relationship with capitalism
- 4. Maelstrom: the decolonization vortex
- Part III. Integration: 5. Conformity and profit: the Soviet economy under American hegemony
- 6. Poor relations: the limits of Soviet economic dysfunction
- Conclusion: Mikoyan's legacy.
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