Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev (New Studies in European History) - Softcover

Sanchez-Sibony, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316635295 ISBN 13: 9781316635292

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Winner, 2015 Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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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About the Author

Oscar Sanchez-Sibony received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He is Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on Soviet history, energy, the Cold War and global capitalism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316635295
• ISBN 13: 9781316635292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294