Magistrale.. Un libro di fondamentale importanza per valutare il nostro futuro globale e comprendere il nostro passato' richard davenport-hines, the times literary supplement, libri dell'anno'un'indagine magistrale che stabilirà lo standard per gli studi sulla guerra fredda per gli anni a venire' jonathan steele, london review of books quando la germania e poi il giappone si arresero nel 1945, c'era una grande speranza che un mondo nuovo e molto migliore potesse essere creato dalle rovine morali e fisiche del conflitto. Invece, la combinazione dell'enorme potenza degli usa e dell'urss e il crollo quasi totale della maggior parte dei loro rivali crearono un nuovo ambiente unico e cupo: la guerra fredda. Per oltre quarant'anni le richieste della guerra fredda plasmarono la vita di quasi tutti noi. Non c'era parte del mondo in cui l'est e l'ovest non richiedessero, in ultima analisi, una fedeltà cieca e assoluta, e nessun luogo in cui l'ovest e l'est non arrivassero. Paesi lontani tra loro come la corea, l'angola e cuba erano definiti dalle loro fedeltà. Quasi tutte le guerre civili divennero conflitti per procura delle superpotenze. L'europa fu apparentemente divisa in due indefinitamente. Il nuovo straordinario libro di arne westad è il primo ad avere la distanza da questi eventi e l'ambizione di creare una narrazione convincente e potente della guerra fredda. Il libro è autenticamente globale nella sua portata e cattura i drammi e le agonie di un periodo sempre oscurato dall'orrore della guerra nucleare e che, per milioni di persone, non era affatto "freddo": un periodo di violenza implacabile, opportunità sprecate e fallimento morale.
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Odd Arne Westad is S.T. Lee Professor of U.S-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. He has published over fifteen books on modern and contemporary international history, among them The Global Cold War, which won the Bancroft Prize, and Restless Empire. He is the co-author of The Penguin History of the World.
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War.
For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely.
Arne Westad's remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War. The book is genuinely global in its reach and captures the dramas and agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war and which, for millions of people, was not 'cold' at all: a time of relentless violence, squandered opportunities and moral failure.
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