BOOK REVIEW - RED GLOBALIZATION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SOVIET COLD WAR FROM STALIN TO KHRUSHCHEV, BY OSCAR SANCHEZ-SIBONY, NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2014, 293 PAGES

Red Globalization depicts the economic globalization of the Soviet Union. The primary merit of the book, I argue, lies in emphasis and counteraction of numerous misconceptions regarding economic policies of Eastern European socialist countries that followed the USSR’s model. Presented in a temporal...

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Published inStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Sociologia Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 125 - 128
Main Author Mihaly, Zoltan
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai 2020
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Summary:Red Globalization depicts the economic globalization of the Soviet Union. The primary merit of the book, I argue, lies in emphasis and counteraction of numerous misconceptions regarding economic policies of Eastern European socialist countries that followed the USSR’s model. Presented in a temporal manner, the sequence of events is globally embedded at every turn, a timely and necessary act of historical contextualization that ultimately demonstrates international economic dependencies.
ISSN:2066-0464
2066-0464
DOI:10.2478/subbs-2020-0012