Apuntes históricos sobre la Rusia soviética

(1917-1945)

Tomaron el Palacio de Invierno, y al grito de #¡Todo el poder a los sóviets# iniciaron una gesta que conmovió al mundo, y que llenó de esperanza y fervor revolucionario a los trabajadores y de pavor a la reacción por doquier. Eran obreros, jornaleros, campesinos ...

Ostpolitik, 1969-1974

european and global responses

Eds., Carole Fink, Bernd Schaefer Recent studies of the Cold War transcend a narrow focus on four decades of superpower rivalry, recognizing that leaders and governments outside of Washington and Moscow also exerted political, economic, and moral influence well beyond their own borders. One striking ...

La última batalla de la Guerra Fría

cómo y por qué se hundió el comunismo

Hace 20 años el mundo celebró una gran fiesta contagiado del entusiasmo desatado por el hundimiento del comunismo. Carlos Alberto Montaner expone por qué su derrota, simbolizada con el derribo del Muro de Berlín, fue #el resultado de las fallas del sistema, de su intrínseca ...

The cold war

a beginner´s guide

For nearly half a century the world was divided in two, wrenched apart by superpowers that perceived the nations of the world only as either capitalist or communist. The Cold War was a battle not of weapons but rather of minds, fought by intelligence agencies ...

Thinking about nuclear weapons

principles, problems, prospects

The book reflects the author's experience across more than forty years in assessing and forming policy about nuclear weapons, mostly at senior levels close to the centre both of British governmental decision-making and of NATO's development of plans and deployments, with much interaction ...

La caída del muro de Berlín

crónica de aquel hecho inesperado que cambió el mundo

Traducido del francés por Manuel Talens. Cuando se cumple el veinte aniversario de la caída del Muro de Berlín, Jean-Marc Gonin y Olivier Guez, que conocieron de primera mano aquellos sucesos, nos cuentan no sólo lo que pasó, sino también el cómo y el porqué ...

Soviet fates and lost alternatives

from stalinism to the new cold war

With conflicts again dividing Russia and the United States, the need for balanced, accessible scholarship that benefits from new materials and critical perspectives is imperative. In seven lucid, groundbreaking essays, Stephen F. Cohen questions many conventional assumptions about the course of Soviet history, the fall ...

Cómo la Guerra Fría transformó la filosofía de la ciencia

hacia las heladas laderas de la lógica

El libro muestra cómo la Guerra Fría contribuyó no solo a configurar los contenidos curriculares de las universidades, sino incluso a que se adoptaran determinadas actitudes y a que se siguieran ciertas líneas de investigación y se abandonaran otras en la filosofía de la ciencia.

Nuclear dawn

the atomic bomb from the Manhattan Project to the Cold War

The obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 brought the world to a stand still. This unimaginable shock confirmed to the world that the race to develop a working atomic weapon during World War II had been won by the American-led international effort. Horrific ...

The anti-communist manifestos

four books that shaped the cold war

Hell hath no fury like a communist converted-and, more so, one who knows how to wield a typewriter. In this lively, bookish tale, medievalist, retired Princeton professor and-importantly for this story- amateur bookbinder Fleming examines the curious careers of four fellow travelers whose conversions away ...

Cold war captives

imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing

Presents the history of early cold war America that recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. This book explores a central dimension of American culture and politics - the postwar preoccupation with captivity. It also explores the ways in which east-west disputes over prisoners ...

1989

the strunggle to create post-cold war Europe

There are unique periods in history when a single year witnesses the total transformation of international relations. The year 1989 was one such crucial watershed. This book uses previously unavailable sources to explore the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ...

Hermanos siameses

los Estados Unidos de Europa y los Estados Unidos de América en el siglo XXI

Esta compilación de artículos, escritos entre 1999 y 2009, exploran con bisturí científico y formato periodístico los acontecimientos más relevantes que han marcado la agenda transatlántica en la última década.

Europa, veinte años después del Muro

Dir., Carlos Flores Juberías. La conmemoración del vigésimo aniversario de la caída del Muro de Berlín, el 9 de noviembre de 1989, constituye un hito que sin duda merece suscitar la reflexión de cualquier europeo comprometido con su tiempo. No en vano se trata del ...

Ostpolitik, 1969-1974

european and global responses

Eds., Carole Fink, Bernd Schaefer Recent studies of the Cold War transcend a narrow focus on four decades of superpower rivalry, recognizing that leaders and governments outside of Washington and Moscow also exerted political, economic, and moral influence well beyond their own borders. One striking ...

From the Soviet bloc to European Union

the economic and social transformation of central and eastern Europe since 1973

The Soviet Union#s dramatic collapse in 1991 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former Soviet bloc countries joining the European ...

Perceptions and policy in transatlantic relations

prospective visions from the US and Europe

Eds. Natividad Fernández Sola, Michael Smith. In this book, experts from both sides of the Atlantic, examine the recent tensions between Western Europe and the United States over such issues as transatlantic security, policies towards terrorism and relations with Russia and the former Soviet Union ...

Invisible hands

the making of the conservative movement from the new deal to Reagan

After General Electric was forced to settle with its workers following a bitter and protracted strike in 1946, the company's executives appointed a man named Lemuel Ricketts Boulware to head employee relations. Boulware took on the cause of fighting the union with righteous zeal ...

El nuevo gran juego en Asia central

geopolítica en el Mar Caspio

La región es clave por sus recursos naturales así como por su posición geográfica . La pugna entre los diversos actores refleja unas dinámicas que pueden tener su reflejo en el futuro escenario global: la pujanza de Rusia y China, el declive de Estados Unidos y ...

Antagonistics

capitalism and power in an age of war

Antagonistics addresses core political and theoretical questions: How should we conceive the relations between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitalist globalization? Reflections on the central issues of the post-9/11 order are set within a larger framework, tracing the intertwined evolution of the ...