The Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ◽  
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
China Threat

Is China bent on world domination? Although Americans perceived the Soviet Union as posing the greatest Cold War-era military challenge, they also periodically feared a “China threat” during those decades. Since the days of Mao, the PRC’s penchant for staging parades showing off its...

scholarly journals Faith, Fallout, and the Future: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction in the Early Postwar Era

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 520
Author(s):  
Michael Scheibach
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Church Membership ◽  
Atomic Age ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
Role Of Religion

In the early postwar era, from 1945 to 1960, Americans confronted a dilemma that had never been faced before. In the new atomic age, which opened with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945, they now had to grapple with maintaining their faith in a peaceful and prosperous future while also controlling their fear of an apocalyptic future resulting from an atomic war. Americans’ subsequent search for reassurance translated into a dramatic increase in church membership and the rise of the evangelical movement. Yet, their fear of an atomic war with the Soviet Union and possible nuclear apocalypse did not abate. This article discusses how six post-apocalyptic science fiction novels dealt with this dilemma and presented their visions of the future; more important, it argues that these novels not only reflect the views of many Americans in the early Cold War era, but also provide relevant insights into the role of religion during these complex and controversial years to reframe the belief that an apocalypse was inevitable.

Part 1 The Cold War Era (1945–89), 25 The Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan—1979–80

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nolte Georg ◽  
Barkholdt Janina
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Final Section ◽  
International Community ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Negative Reaction ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Cold War

This contribution discusses the intervention by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan (1979-1980). After recalling the facts and the context of this intervention, it sets out the legal positions of the main protagonists (the Soviet Union and Afghanistan) and examines the reaction of the international community of States. It then analyses the different grounds invoked by the Soviet Union as justification for the lawfulness of its intervention focusing on the claim of an intervention by invitation. In the final section it is argued that the negative reaction of a large majority of states to the justifications offered by the Soviet Union have led to a confirmation and clarification of the applicable law.

Violating the Canon: Reading Der Nister with Vasilii Grossman

Slavic Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 642-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet Murav
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
War Literature ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Political Constraints ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Cold War Era

'Violating the Canon” makes the case for an alternative Jewish and literary space in the context of Soviet war literature by comparing works by Vasilii Grossman, Il'ia Erenburg, and the Yiddish author Der Nister. In this article, Harriet Murav distinguishes the question of literary value from the question of identity and separates out the problem of determining the typicality or representativeness of a work from the problem of engaging the complexity of its meanings. Jewish literature from the Soviet Union ought to be recovered from the constraints that subordinate it to Cold War-era sociological and political constraints. Mikhail Bakhtin, Werner Sollors, and Michael Warner provide approaches that allow access to more fluid and open-ended readings.

Imagining a Global Sovereignty: U.S. Counternarcotic Operations in Istanbul during the Early Cold War and the Origins of the Foreign “War on Drugs”

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Pembleton
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
National Security ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Drug Control ◽  
Federal Bureau ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Deep State ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Cold War

Drawing on declassified records of the little-known Federal Bureau of Narcotics, this article examines counternarcotics operations in postwar Istanbul in the context of the Cold War and its impact on U.S. officials’ conceptions of national security. Ever-expanding drug control operations demonstrated the emergence of U.S. hegemonic impulses independent of the deepening conflict with the Soviet Union. The article challenges the view that U.S. policy on drug control during the early Cold War era existed primarily as an adjunct of the “deep state.” Actual U.S. policies were shaped by a much more complex set of factors.

scholarly journals Paying it forward: Canada's renewed commitment to NATO's enhanced Forward Presence

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-171
Author(s):  
Christian Leuprecht ◽  
Joel Sokolsky ◽  
Jayson Derow
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face

Although the dissolution of the Soviet Union may have altered the founding Cold War rationale for NATO, the fundamental principle of the transatlantic alliance has prevailed for 70 years: the collective defence of shared interests. In the face of Russian aggression, and uncertainty about US continued commitment to the alliance, reinforcing NATO has emerged as Canada's top expeditionary defence priority. Indeed, just before the NATO summit in July 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau renewed Canada's commitment to the enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) as the Framework Nation for Latvia for four years, and scaled up Canada's contribution to the allied battlegroup. This decision is as much a reflection of the eFP's immediate collective defence requirements in Latvia as it is of the extent to which the existential fate of Canada's most important defence asset hangs in the balance: the alliance, Canada's role in it, and the future of Canadian defence policy.

Neo-Realism and the future of strategy

1993 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Warsaw Pact ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Way

To speak of the ‘future’ of strategy is to reveal a deep tension in the way we commonly think about the subject. On the one hand we are confronted by revolutionary changes in the geo-political landscape. The transformation of Europe, the fragmentation of the Soviet Union, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, for example, encourage the belief that the Cold War—a term which has been almost synonymous with-strategy for nearly half a century—is now an historical artifact. These events, analyzed so intensively by leaders and commentators, open up significant questions about the future of strategy.

Making News Soviet: Rethinking Journalistic Professionalism after Stalin, 1953–1970

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-84
Author(s):  
SIMON HUXTABLE
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Journalistic Professionalism ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
Made In

This article challenges the assumption, frequently made in scholarship on Soviet media, that news was absent in the Soviet Union. Working across press, radio, and television, the article shows how after 1953 reform of Soviet news became a priority for journalists, editors and media professionals. The article focuses on discussions among journalists and officials about the future of journalism, arguing that journalists’ notions of professional excellence played a crucial role in shaping news coverage. In a climate of Cold War competition with western radio, new technological possibilities and changing political priorities, journalists gradually overcame their condescension towards news, emphasising its civic potential as an agent of social ‘democratisation’, and the artistic nature of reportage. This new configuration was precarious, however, and collapsed after the Czechoslovakian crisis of 1968. As the Party placed new restrictions on the flow of information, news lost its professional prestige.

scholarly journals Le réexamen des affaires du vol 007 de la Korean Airlines et du RB-50 (Note)

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Anatoli Ilyashov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Cold War

As revealed by documents in the National Archives in Washington, u.c., the United States routinely and knowingly sent reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union during the fifties and sixties. The u-2 shootdown of the pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1960 was a manifestation of this dangerous pattern during the Cold War era. The author, the first Fulbright Lecturer to the formerly « closed-to-foreigners » military-industrial city of Nizhny Novgorod, or Gorki, suggests a direct correlation between this pattern of earlier reconnaissance flights and the shoot down of the KAL 007 airliner in 1983. It thus contains implications for current foreign policy in the bold new post-Cold War era, in which the means for surveillance have become more militarily sophisticated and technologically advanced.

American travelers to the soviet union in the cold war era

Society ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Paul Hollander
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Cold War
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