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1989 and why we got it wrong
1989 und warum wir es falsch verstanden haben
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Abstract The Cold War generated more discussion and controversy than any other topic since 1945. Yet, the possibility that the Cold War might end was neither on the radar of scholars nor of politics and the military. This essay seeks to explain why 'we' got it wrong by focusing in the main on how 'we' in the... mehr
The Cold War generated more discussion and controversy than any other topic since 1945. Yet, the possibility that the Cold War might end was neither on the radar of scholars nor of politics and the military. This essay seeks to explain why 'we' got it wrong by focusing in the main on how 'we' in the West understood the Soviet system. Part one thus deals with the Cold War itself and its impact on what came to be known as western 'Soviet Studies'. Part two then looks at the way in which the USSR was understood by an emerging group of new social scientists in the 1970s and 1980s. Part three considers the Gorbachev problem. And part four examines the ways in which the socialist left thoughts about the USSR in the context of the Cold War. In conclusion, I offer reflections on how the generally flawed understanding of the Soviet Union precluded the anticipation of Soviet collapse.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
politisches System; politische Linke; Wiedervereinigung; politischer Wandel; Transformation; Protestbewegung; Europa; Kalter Krieg; realer Sozialismus; internationale Beziehungen; Westeuropa; UdSSR
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Methode
deskriptive Studie
Freie Schlagwörter
Cold War; Soviet collapse; Soviet economy; Soviet Studies; social science; Gorbachev; Socialism; Stalinism
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2008
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
14 S.
Schriftenreihe
Working Paper Series of the Research Network 1989, 1
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung