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1 online resource (242 pages) |
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History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic |
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History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic
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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; Archibald MacLeish on freedom, 1952 |
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AHA Presidential Addresses, 1948-9US writing on Soviet and US history, 1947-50; Stalin, Zhdanov and Soviet writing, 1947-9; US-Soviet approaches to history, 1968-70; Braudel: event, conjuncture, structure, 1949-; Porshnev: the diachronic-synchronic approach, 1970-; Part Two: Conjunctures; 4. The Great Conjuncture: Leninism versus Wilsonism; Why Leninism and Wilsonism?; War and international relations, c. 1870-1905; Wilson and Lenin: early careers, intellectual backgrounds and activity; Some features of the early contemporary world; Lenin and Wilson on war and revolution |
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Lenin and Wilson as 'great men' in history and precursors of Stalin and Roosevelt5. Conjunctures in Transitions to Modernity and Contemporaneity; Modernity and contemporaneity; German modernisation: an exception in Europe?; Early modern Europe, c. 1500-1660; US and Soviet exceptionalism; The making of modern Europe: Russia and USA; Revolutions: conjunctures and disjunctures; Part Three: Structures; 6. American-Russian Aspects of the Structure of the First Great Game; A geopolitical introduction; Medieval components: church, society and family; The 'discovery' of America and Russia |
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Colonisation, cameralism and mercantilismSlavery and serfdom; Economic divergence; Montesquieu's views of size in Russia and North America; Russian and US frontier cultures; Forecasts of superpower, and early US attitudes to Russia; The impact of the Crimean and American Civil Wars; Early Russian attitudes towards the USA: Herzen and the future; 7. Towards the Structure of the Last Great Game: USA versus USSR; Political culture and historical sociology; Reason and Enlightenment and the American Revolution; Marx and Weber and the Russian Revolution; Perceptions of continuity and change |
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Subjectivity and objectivity8. Conclusion; Concluding Summary; US-Soviet discussion of Second World War and Cold War; Notes; Further Reading; Index |
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Print version record |
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Cold War
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Diplomatic relations.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
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Soviet Union.
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United States.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474290579 |
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1474290574 |
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