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The Cold War: A World History (2017)

de Odd Arne Westad

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"We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world. In The Cold War, Westad offers a new perspective on a century when great power rivalry and ideological battle transformed every corner of our globe. From Soweto to Hollywood, Hanoi, and Hamburg, young men and women felt they were fighting for the future of the world. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where nearly every community had to choose sides. And these choices continue to define economies and regimes across the world. Today, many regions are plagued with environmental threats, social divides, and ethnic conflicts that stem from this era. Its ideologies influence China, Russia, and the United States; Iraq and Afghanistan have been destroyed by the faith in purely military solutions that emerged from the Cold War. Stunning in its breadth and revelatory in its perspective, this book expands our understanding of the Cold War both geographically and chronologically, and offers an engaging new history of how today's world was created."--Amazon.com.… (més)
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Written by not a US or UK national and it tells. It is far more balanced in its assessment of events. I would say it's ±70% ideal. Why 70? Because even in this tour de force equally diabolical acts of the US and the West still leave an impression of being less sinister and nefarious than those of the USSR :(

Во времена продолжающейся мировой напряженности, которую некоторые называют второй холодной войной, вышла новая попытка осмысления первой. Автор — норвежец, и это заметно — большинство работ его англосаксонских коллег нашему читателю можно изучать, только если он мазохист: героические силы западного Добра сопротивляются и, наконец, одолевают советское Зло по всему миру. Типичная история, написанная победителями, к примеру, бестселлер йельского профессора Дж. Л. Гэддиса The Cold War: A New History. Скандинаву такое манихейство не свойственно, и дьявольские козни американцев и их союзников он называет своими именами. Впрочем, к СССР он тоже относится без излишних симпатий, но этим книга и ценна — это наиболее объективный рассказ о главном противостоянии XX века. Отойдя от американоцентризма, Вестад смог лучше и глубже рассказать о третьем мире и социалистических странах — тут коллеги из США в основном проходят по верхам. А напрасно, ведь рассказ о том, как банановая корпорация United Fruit (ныне Chiquita) держала за горло всю Центральную Америку, может, не достаточно эпичен, но точно иллюстративен. Таких важных нюансов у Вестада приятно много.
  Den85 | Jan 3, 2024 |
Good - not great, overview of post WWII world. Reads like a text book- Europe, Asia, Africa ... Good to read the European perspective, as the author clearly sees himself / europe in the middle between these two giant sometimes monsters. Sometimes one is especially bad, other times the other one is. One may say even handed, or.... Lionizes Gorbachev for example - a hero fighting the left, right, center, europe and the world to bring the world to the right place. Pleasant reading, but nothing new for me in this one... ( )
  apende | Jul 12, 2022 |
(Klappentexte) : Odd Arne Westad, geboren 1960, ist einer der international renommiertesten Experten zum "Kalten Krieg". Von 1998 bis 2014 forschte und lehrte er an der London School of Economics. Seit 2015 ist er Professor für internationale Beziehungen und Globalgeschichte in Harvard an der "Kennedy School of Government".

Der "Kalte Krieg" dominierte die internationale Politik und prägte das Leben der Menschen in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts - in allen Teilen der Welt. Er verursachte Angst und Verwirrung von Hollywood bis Hanoi. Auf der Höhe der Forschung präsentiert Odd Arne Westad eine große, umfassende Geschichte dieses Weltkonflikts und deutet ihn erstmals aus globaler Perspektive. Glänzend zeigt er, dass er weit mehr war als eine begrenzte Konfrontation zwischen beiden Supermächten, die mit dem Kollaps der Sowjetunion endete. Eindrücklich argumentiert er, dass der "Kalte Krieg" den globalen Transformationen des 19. Jahrhunderts entsprang, und begreift ihn im Zusammenhang des weltweiten wirtschaftlichen, technischen, sozialen und politischen Wandels. Höchst anschaulich analysiert er die verschiedenen Phasen der Konfrontation zwischen Kapitalismus und Sozialismus. Das neue Standardwerk - unerlässliche Lektüre für alle, die verstehen wollen, wie tiefgreifend der "Kalte Krieg" das Leben der Menschen prägte, und welche Rolle er bei der Entstehung unserer heutigen Welt gespielt hat.
  Aficionado | Mar 2, 2020 |
Starting before WWII, Westad tracks how the US and the USSR’s self-understanding as great powers locked in mortal combat affected their external relations across the globe, and how other nations, whether they agreed or disagreed with this characterization, had to deal with it one way or another. I probably learned most about the PRC and how it positioned itself as the smarter younger sibling of the USSR. ( )
  rivkat | May 21, 2018 |
The Cold War: A Global History by Odd Arne Westad
This is a very good book. The author traces the beginning of the Cold War to the turn of the twentieth century and World War I. One of the origins of the multi-decade conflict “was the sharpening of the ideological divide between capitalism and its critics.” This and the United States and the Soviet Union becoming majors players on the world stage created the circumstances for what followed for the rest of the twentieth century.
Westad highlights the major events from the formation of socialist states in Eastern Europe through the decolonization of Africa and Asia and the breakup of the Soviet Union. A 600+ plus page book is not a weekend read, but it is well worth the effort. While this book provides a good overview of events, it also whets the appetite for further study. The Cold War by Odd Arne Westad would be a great text for a course on the Cold War. ( )
  LamSon | Mar 2, 2018 |
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"We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world. In The Cold War, Westad offers a new perspective on a century when great power rivalry and ideological battle transformed every corner of our globe. From Soweto to Hollywood, Hanoi, and Hamburg, young men and women felt they were fighting for the future of the world. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where nearly every community had to choose sides. And these choices continue to define economies and regimes across the world. Today, many regions are plagued with environmental threats, social divides, and ethnic conflicts that stem from this era. Its ideologies influence China, Russia, and the United States; Iraq and Afghanistan have been destroyed by the faith in purely military solutions that emerged from the Cold War. Stunning in its breadth and revelatory in its perspective, this book expands our understanding of the Cold War both geographically and chronologically, and offers an engaging new history of how today's world was created."--Amazon.com.

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