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

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.>

About the author

PAUL DUKES is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Dukes, Paul (University of Aberdeen Dukes, Dukes Paul
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781474290562
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-9056-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic; History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era