To run the world: the Kremlin's Cold War bid for global power

Radchenko, Sergey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5100-1447 2024. To run the world: the Kremlin's Cold War bid for global power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Abstract

What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev's reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev's jockeying for influence in the third world, and Gorbachev's failed attempts to reinvent Moscow's claims to greatness. Perennial insecurities, delusions of grandeur, and desire for recognition propelled Moscow on a headlong quest for global power, with dire consequences and painful legacies that continue to shape our world.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	9781108477352
Last Modified:	13 Jun 2024 10:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169620

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