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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798679103321

Autore

Dukes Paul <1934->

Titolo

The last great game: USA versus USSR : events, conjunctures, structures / / Paul Dukes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2018

ISBN

1-4742-9058-2

1-4742-9057-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

History and politics in the 20th century: Bloomsbury Academic collections

Disciplina

327.73047

Soggetti

Cold War

Soviet Union Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Events -- Part 2. Conjunctures -- Part 3. Structures.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.