The Last Great Game: USA Versus USSR

Events, Conjunctures, Structures

By:

Paul Dukes

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Hardback

Series:

History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic

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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.

Author Biography:

Paul Dukes is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Release date Australia

October 6th, 2016

Author

Paul Dukes

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

240

Series

History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic

Dimensions

156x234x14

ISBN-13

9781474290562

Product ID

25181674

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