The Cold War and after : capitalism, revolution and superpower politics / Richard Saull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saull, Richard, 1969-

Series:

Critical introductions to world politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--20th century.

World politics.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

x, 257 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2007.

Contents:

1 Introduction: History and Theory in the Cold War 1

Radical Theories of Cold War 3

The Cold War as a Global Social-Systemic Conflict 8

2 The International Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Early Cold War, 1917-45 16

The Bolshevik Revolution and the Constitution of the Soviet State 18

The USSR and the Capitalist Great Powers, 1917-41 25

The Contradictions of Capitalist Development and International Revolution 35

Conclusions: World War and Social Conflict 45

3 The Cold War Transformed: Geopolitical Restructuring and a New Wave of Social Revolution, 1945-49 49

The Geopolitical Consequences of War 52

Inter-Capitalist Relations and Cold War 61

A New Wave of Social Revolution and Communist Expansion 68

Conclusions: The Uneven Socio-economic Consequences of Geopolitical Transformation 80

4 The Militarisation of Cold War: The Containment of the USSR and the Emergence of New Revolutionary Fronts, 1950-62 83

Europe's 'Long Peace': The Consolidation of Cold War Blocs and the Militarisation of the Cold War 85

Tensions within the Communist World: Threats to Soviet Power in East-Central Europe and the Developing Sino-Soviet Split 92

Global Social Conflict and New Revolutionary Fronts 103

5 The Final Gasp of Cold War: The Decline of US Military Superiority and the Expansion of International Communist Power, 1962-80 119

Vietnam: The Revolutionary Defeat of Militarised Containment 120

Detente: The Contradictions of Containment by Diplomacy 130

The Collapse of Bretton Woods and the Onset of a New Wave of Crisis within Capitalism 132

A New Wave of Revolutionary Crisis and Soviet International Expansion 138

Conclusions: The End of Detente and the Revival of US Militarism 151

6 Ending the Cold War: From Militarised Counter-Revolution to the Collapse of Soviet Communism, 1980-91 155

Reagan and Militarised Counter-Revolution 156

The Debate about the End of the Cold War 165

Conclusions: Ending the Cold War - The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Bloc and the International Defeat of Historical Communism 170

7 Conclusions: Tracing the Paradoxical Ends of the Cold War and the Origins of Contemporary Conflict in World Politics 180

Contemporary Conflict and the Theorisation of Post-Cold War World Politics 182

The Social and Ideological Character of Reactionary Resistance 188

The Paradoxical Ends of Cold War, Reactionary Politics and US Strategy 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index.

ISBN:

0745320953

9780745320953

0745320945

9780745320946

OCLC:

72868387