02491nam 22005171 450 991079867910332120170124114527.01-4742-9058-21-4742-9057-410.5040/9781474290586(CKB)3710000000841118(EBL)4659890(MiAaPQ)EBC4659890(OCoLC)1090446165(UtOrBLW)bpp09262722(EXLCZ)99371000000084111820180205d2018 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe last great game: USA versus USSR events, conjunctures, structures /Paul DukesLondon :Bloomsbury Publishing,2018.1 online resource (242 p.)History and politics in the 20th century: Bloomsbury Academic collectionsIncludes index.1-4742-9056-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1. Events -- Part 2. Conjunctures -- Part 3. Structures."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.History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury AcademicUnited States of America versus Union of Soviet Socialist RepublicsCold WarGeneral & world historySoviet UnionForeign relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relationsSoviet UnionCold War.327.73047Dukes Paul1934-210489UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910798679103321The last great game: USA versus USSR3730691UNINA