The Russians are coming, again the first Cold War as tragedy, the second as farce
"Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that history repeats itself, "first as tragedy, then as farce." The Cold War waged between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 until the latter's dissolution in 1991 was a great tragedy, resulting in...
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Monthly Review Press
[2018]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: The Russians are coming, again
- Anti-Russian hysteria in propaganda and fact
- "The time you sent troops to quell the Revolution": the true origins of the Cold War
- Provoking confrontation: the United States and the origins of the Cold War
- The Cold War and the attack on U.S. democracy
- Truman, McCarthyism, and domestic repression
- A war on the Global South: the Cold War in the Third World
- Conclusion: Avoiding a third World War