The Russians Are Coming, Again by Jeremy Kuzmarov ( epub) torrent

The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce by Jeremy Kuzmarov, John Marciano

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Genre: Non-Fiction > History

Overview:

Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce.” The Cold War waged between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 until the latter's dissolution in 1991 was a great tragedy, resulting in millions of civilian deaths in proxy wars, and a destructive arms race that diverted money from social spending and nearly led to nuclear annihilation. The New Cold War between the United States and Russia is playing out as farce – a dangerous one at that. The Russians Are Coming, Again is a red flag to restore our historical consciousness about U.S.-Russian relations, and how denying this consciousness is leading to a repetition of past follies