Cold War triumphalism : the misuse of history after the fall of communism / edited by Ellen Schrecker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schrecker, Ellen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics.

Philosophy.

History.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

Politics and government.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989--Philosophy.

United States--History--1945---Philosophy.

World politics--1945-1989--Philosophy.

Cold War.

Cold War--Influence.

Physical Description:

vi, 359 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., [2004]

Summary:

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservatives have seized on the collapse of Communist states to argue for the failure of the left more generally. Having declared victory in the Cold War, the ideologues of the right have turned to rewriting the history of that struggle, seeking to undo a generation of critical scholarship on America's rise to global dominance after World War II. Cold War Triumphalism assembles some of the nation's leading diplomatic, intellectual, and economic historians of the Cold War to counter and dissect this new, virulent strain of right-wing dogma, exposing its historical and ideological roots in the political struggles of the past fifty years.

Contents:

Introduction: Cold War Triumphalism and the Real Cold War / Ellen Schrecker 1

Part I Intellectuals

1 Moral Judgments and the Cold War: Reflections on Reinhold Niebuhr, William Appleman Williams, and John Lewis Gaddis / Leo P. Ribuffo 27

2 Time of Illusion: Post-Cold War Visions of the World / Bruce Cumings 71

Part II Economics

3 Market Triumphalism and the Wishful Liberals / Nelson Lichtenstein 103

4 Cold War Triumphalism and the Deformation of the American Economy / Michael A. Bernstein 126

Part III The Past

5 "Papers of a Dangerous Tendency": From Major Andre's Boot to the VENONA Files / Maurice Isserman, Ellen Schrecker 149

6 The Myth of the Berlin Blockade and the Early Cold War / Carolyn Eisenberg 174

7 The United States, the United Nations, and the Other Post-Cold War World Order: Internationalism and Unilateralism in the American Century / Jessica Wang 201

Part IV The Present

8 The Three Cold Wars / Chalmers Johnson 237

9 Still Stuck in the Big Muddy / Marilyn B. Young 262

10 Remembrance of Empires Past: 9/11 and the End of the Cold War / Corey Robin 274.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-339) and index.

ISBN:

1565848993

OCLC:

53356288