The Superpowers: A Short History

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Routledge, 2000 - 197 pages
The Superpowers traces the development of the USA and Russia (later USSR) from 1898 through to 2000, placing the Cold War, from inception to ending, into the wider social, economic and political context. This is the first history of the two major participants and their relationship throughout the twentieth century.
The Superpowers: explores the intertwining history of the two powers chronologically and includes discussion of:
* the inheritance of the two great powers and their imperial background
* World War One and the Russian Revolution
* Capitalism and Socialism
* World War Two and its impact
* the conflicts in Berlin, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam and Afghanistan
* Perestroika and the end of the USSR
* the significance of the events of 1991 and their legacy.

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About the author (2000)

Born in Wallington, Surrey in 1934, Paul Dukes was taught History at the local grammar school by the late Dr E. N. Williams. He was an Exhibitioner at Peterhouse, Cambridge from 1951 to 1954, graduating with a BA Honours in History. He was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Washington from 1954 to 1956, completing an MA in American History with a thesis on the colonial period. [NP] From 1957 to 1959, he was a National Serviceman in the Intelligence Corps, studying Russian at the Joint Services School for Languages at Crail. From 1959 to 1964 he taught American History for the University of Maryland Overseas while writing a thesis on eighteenth-century Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London. In 1964 he was appointed Assistant at the University of Aberdeen, with which he is still associated, from 1999 as Emeritus Professor. He has held visiting appointments at Auckland and Cornell. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999, and is on the Editorial Board of 'History Today'. [NP] Paul Dukes has published widely on Russian, European and world history. His works include a range of monographs as well as general histories of Russia and Europe and a series of studies on the relationship between the USA and USSR. He has a son and a daughter and three grandchildren.

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