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Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945–1950
Marc J. Selverstone
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Description for Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945–1950
Hardback. As the cold war took shape during the late 1940s, policymakers in the United States and Great Britain displayed a marked tendency to regard international communism as a 'monolithic' conspiratorial movement. This book explains the cold war mindset that determined global policy for much of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; HBG; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 692.
As the Cold War took shape during the late 1940s, policymakers in the United States and Great Britain displayed a marked tendency to regard international communism as a “monolithic” conspiratorial movement. The image of a “Communist monolith” distilled the messy realities of international relations into a neat, comprehensible formula. Its lesson was that all communists, regardless of their native land or political program, were essentially tools of the Kremlin.
Marc Selverstone recreates the manner in which the “monolith” emerged as a perpetual framework on both sides of the Atlantic. Though more pervasive and millennial in its American guise, this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674031791
SKU
V9780674031791
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99-19
About Marc J. Selverstone
Marc J. Selverstone heads the acclaimed Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, where he edits the secret White House tapes of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. He has written for the Washington Post, Atlantic, and U.S. News and World Report and appeared on C-Span radio. He is the author of Constructing the Monolith: ... Read more
Reviews for Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945–1950
The Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis wrote 20 years ago that American statesmen in the postwar period never ‘believed in the existence of an international Communist monolith.’ After reading Selverstone’s work, it would be hard to accept that judgement… The parallels between ‘Communist monolith’ thinking and the ‘axis of evil’ delusion which infected the United States after 9/11 are ... Read more