Red Globalization
The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev
1st Edition
Published on 18. March 2014
978-1-139-69910-5 (ISBN)
Description
Was the Soviet Union a superpower? Red Globalization is a significant rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony challenges the idea that the Soviet Union represented a parallel socio-economic construct to the liberal world economy. Instead he shows that the USSR, a middle-income country more often than not at the mercy of global economic forces, tracked the same path as other countries in the world, moving from 1930s autarky to the globalizing processes of the postwar period. In examining the constraints and opportunities afforded the Soviets in their engagement of the capitalist world, he questions the very foundations of the Cold War narrative as a contest between superpowers in a bipolar world. Far from an economic force in the world, the Soviets managed only to become dependent providers of energy to the rich world, and second-best partners to the global South.
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'Red Globalization is an interesting and high-quality scholarly work drawing on Soviet history, Cold War studies, and international political economics. It invites ties to several other disciplines, including Soviet economic history, which has not been the focus of recent international scholarship.' Sari Autio-Sarasmo, Slavic ReviewMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
17 Line drawings, black and white
File size
3254,49 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-139-69910-5 (9781139699105)
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Oscar Sanchez-Sibony
Red Globalization
The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev
Book
03/2014
Cambridge University Press
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Person
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony received his PhD from the University of Chicago. His dissertation won the ASEEES Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize in 2010. He is Assistant Professor of World History at the University of Macau, where he teaches courses on Soviet history, the Cold War and global capitalism.
Content
Part I. Isolation: 1. Depression Stalinism; 2. Postwar: the Bretton Woods Cold War; Part II. Aspiration: 3. Restoration: resuming the relationship with capitalism; 4. Maelstrom: the decolonization vortex; Part III. Integration: 5. Conformity and profit: the Soviet economy under American hegemony; 6. Poor relations: the limits of Soviet economic dysfunction; Conclusion: Mikoyan's legacy.
