Shadow Cold War

By Jeremy Friedman,

Book cover of Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World

Book description

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership…

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1 author picked Shadow Cold War as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

At long last, Jeremy Friedman has given us a cogent, succinct book about Sino-Soviet competition for the Third World.

Readers need not have any deep background in the topic to make sense of Friedman’s work, which lays out a clear explanation of how the Soviet Union’s quest for anti-capitalist revolution butted up against China’s pursuit of anti-imperialism. Shadow Cold War argues that the Sino-Soviet rivalry was rooted in ideological competition, adding another “revolutionary paradigm” to those detailed in Odd Arne Westad’s Total Cold War.

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