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    STUDIA SOCIOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2020  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW: RED GLOBALIZATION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SOVIET COLD WAR FROM STALIN TO KHRUSHCHEV, BY OSCAR SANCHEZ-SIBONY, NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2014, 293 PAGES.

Authors:  MIHÁLY ZOLTÁN.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.2478/subbs-2020-0012

Published Online: 2020-12-30
Published Print: 2020-12-30
pp. 125-128

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Red Globalization depicts the economic globalization of the Soviet Union. The primary merit of the book, I argue, lies in emphasis and counteraction of numerous misconceptions regarding economic policies of Eastern European socialist countries that followed the USSR’s model. Presented in a temporal manner, the sequence of events is globally embedded at every turn, a timely and necessary act of historical contextualization that ultimately demonstrates international economic dependencies.
 
         
     
         
         
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