Format:
1 Online-Ressource (230 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781783719426
Series Statement:
Critical Introductions to World Politics
Content:
An alternative perspective on the Cold War that broadens our understanding of the nature of political conflict
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: History and Theory in the Cold War -- Radical Theories of Cold War -- The Cold War as a Global Social-Systemic Conflict -- 2 The International Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Early Cold War, 1917-45 -- Introduction -- The Bolshevik Revolution and the Constitution of the Soviet State -- The USSR and the Capitalist Great Powers, 1917-41 -- The Contradictions of Capitalist Development and International Revolution -- Conclusions: World War and Social Conflict -- 3 The Cold War Transformed: Geopolitical Restructuring and a New Wave of Social Revolution, 1945-49 -- Introduction -- The Geopolitical Consequences of War -- Inter-Capitalist Relations and Cold War -- A New Wave of Social Revolution and Communist Expansion -- Conclusions: The Uneven Socio-economic Consequences of Geopolitical Transformation -- 4 The Militarisation of Cold War: The Containment of the USSR and the Emergence of New Revolutionary Fronts, 1950-62 -- Introduction -- Europe's 'Long Peace': The Consolidation of Cold War Blocs and the Militarisation of the Cold War -- Tensions within the Communist World: Threats to Soviet Power in East-Central Europe and the Developing Sino-Soviet Split -- Global Social Conflict and New Revolutionary Fronts -- Conclusions -- 5 The Final Gasp of Cold War: The Decline of US Military Superiority and the Expansion of International Communist Power, 1962-80 -- Introduction -- Vietnam: The Revolutionary Defeat of Militarised Containment -- Détente: The Contradictions of Containment by Diplomacy -- The Collapse of Bretton Woods and the Onset of a New Wave of Crisis within Capitalism -- A New Wave of Revolutionary Crisis and Soviet International Expansion -- Conclusions: The End of Détente and the Revival of US Militarism
Content:
6 Ending the Cold War: From Militarised Counter-Revolution to the Collapse of Soviet Communism, 1980-91 -- Introduction -- Reagan and Militarised Counter-Revolution -- The Debate about the End of the Cold War -- Conclusions: Ending the Cold War - The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Bloc and the International Defeat of Historical Communism -- 7 Conclusions: Tracing the Paradoxical Ends of the Cold War and the Origins of Contemporary Conflict in World Politics -- Introduction -- Contemporary Conflict and the Theorisation of Post-Cold War World Politics -- The Social and Ideological Character of Reactionary Resistance -- The Paradoxical Ends of Cold War, Reactionary Politics and US Strategy -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745320946
Additional Edition:
Print version Saull, Richard The Cold War and After : Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics London : Pluto Press,c2007 ISBN 9780745320946
Language:
English
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