Convergence and Cold War, 1953-1964, Hardcover by Jersild, Austin, Like New U...

by Austin Jersild

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Convergence and Cold War, 1, Hardcover by Jersild, Austin, ISBN 103269193X, ISBN-13 9781032691930, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The academic debate in Western social science about the growing “convergence” or similarities between American and Soviet society acquired political significance in the diverse relationships that made up the global Cold War. Convergence and Cold War, 1953–1964 explores the consequences and challenges of convergence through a discussion of .–Soviet relations, Sino-Soviet relations, and East–South relations. Th argues that the debate about convergence was a debate about the character of the broader Cold War itself, and the background to the more recent experience of contemporary globalization and its shared practices and norms. The volume begins by addressing how Americans debated the prospect of a less threatening socialist world shaped by the challenges of industrial modernity, while the Soviets hoped to imitate Western standards of living alongside developing supposedly more elevated forms of consumption, leisure, culture, trade, and economic exchange. The second section analyzes the way supporters of Chairman Mao in China associated the socialist bloc’s engagement with the West as an example of its deterioration and dangerous abandonment of socialist values and practices. The closing chapters examine how the Chinese communicated their frustration with the Soviets and East Europeans to postcolonial states in the Global South. Jersild unpac

• Publisher: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
• Year: 2025
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781032691930
• Condition: Fine

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