David’s Reviews > Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev > Status Update
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The United States – with England and sometimes France as junior partners – was hegemonic, and a transgression of the boundaries it set brought with it swift retribution. The Soviet Union, for its part, had none of the same means to bind countries within a hegemonic configuration, and therefore could not fathom doing so (outside the reach of its armies in its immediate periphery, i.e. outside of Eastern Europe).
— Apr 02, 2023 07:37AM
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David
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The Soviet alliance with Guinea was forged not in the magnetism of Soviet power, but in the exclusionary politics of Western hegemony. Unlike Ghana, Guinea did not dally when talking to the Soviets. The two countries became fast friends. But with no economic basis upon which to build an enduring relationship, only a relentlessly hostile political environment could have sustained it.
— Apr 03, 2023 02:46PM
David
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[Egypt's] aim, as for all poor countries, was not so much to play one side against the other as it was to get a better deal from the preponderant West. To this end he approached the Soviets for an arms sale in July 1955 hoping to expedite a decision from the Americans to sell him arms.
— Apr 02, 2023 03:45PM
David
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The effective subordination of great power struggle under America’s security arrangements, a feat as clear to the new Soviet leaders as it was not to Stalin in the immediate postwar years, was much less threatening to Soviet security than the dissolution of international cooperation of the 1930s.
— Mar 30, 2023 06:48AM
David
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From the 1950s the majority of developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America had been trying to organize a planned economy, or at least a plan to develop their economy. Many had come to the Soviet Union asking for specialists that would speak their language, but the Soviets were not able to supply enough specialists for such high demand. The United Nations, however, were.
— Mar 18, 2023 11:14AM
David
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It was South America that led the postwar world in experimenting with import substitution industrialization (ISI), and the reasons for this, as for much else, can readily be found in the economic crucible of the 1930s. Commodities had seen their markets dry up during the worldwide turn to autarky of the interwar years and World War II.
— Mar 16, 2023 11:09PM
David
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'Soviet aid barely even passed the threshold ofwhat is considered aid, as opposed to credit-facilitated trade. On average, Soviet aid, usually given as credit witha 2.5% interest rate over 12 years, had a grant element of 34%.This compared rather badly with Western aid, which had an average GE of 90%.'
Man quantifying state socialism is a bummer
— Mar 15, 2023 07:05AM
Man quantifying state socialism is a bummer
