Red Globalization. The political economy of the Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev

In this book, the author makes an exciting attempt to revise the world history of the twentieth century, debunking popular stories about the Cold War as a confrontation between two equal in strength and the superpowers fundamentally alien to each other.

In the presentation of Sanchez-Siboni, the USSR does not appear to be traditional Autarchy, but a country, dependent on the Western economy, even more than Brazil, Japan and other states, it would seem firmly inscribed in the global capitalist system. Even those stages of history when the Soviet Union really relied on its own forces, in the author’s optics appears derived from world economic processes, and are not the result of isolationist motives of the top of the Council of Soviets. Close the description