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The Last Great Game: USA Versus USSR: Events, Conjunctures, Structures

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Last Great Game: USA Versus USSR: Events, Conjunctures, Structures
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Paul Dukes
SeriesHistory and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreThe Cold war
ISBN/Barcode 9781474290562
ClassificationsDewey:327.47073
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 6 October 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.