In: History and politics in the 20th century: Bloomsbury Academic collections
"This book is a historical reinterpretation of the Cold War in the broadest sense from the viewpoint of the late 1980s. Dukes contends that the rivalry of the USA and Soviet Union, like the Great Game between Britain and Imperial Russia, can be understood only by analysing their relationship over centuries. He adopts the explanatory model of French historian Fernand Braudel - the concepts of event, conjuncture and structure - and examines the super-power relationship in an historical context stretching back to the medieval period. He argues that the political and cultural gaps between Western and Soviet approaches at key events have stemmed from widely different experiences of these events, as well as from long-embedded traditions."--Bloomsbury Publishing
In: Bloomsbury academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century
In: international relations
In: History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Events -- 1. Introduction -- Cold War - Great Game: analogy and evolution -- Description of book' s argument -- 2. Events of the Cold War: Approaches -- Cold War interpretations: Western and Soviet -- Second World War: barbarization in the East -- Teuton and Slav in German historiography -- Second World War: global barbarization -- Second World War: world views of Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin -- Cold War historiography: some developments -- 3. Events of the Cold War: Reactions
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