{"id":47787,"date":"2025-08-18T14:35:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47787"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:35:42","slug":"vladislav-zubok-the-world-of-the-cold-war-1945-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=47787","title":{"rendered":"Vladislav Zubok, \u201eThe World of the Cold War 1945-1991\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?<\/em><br><br>In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread conflict in contemporary history, Vladislav Zubok traces the origins of the Cold War in post-war Europe, through the tumultuous decades of confrontation, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond.<br><br>With remarkable clarity and unique perspective, Zubok argues that the Cold War, often seen as an existential battle between capitalist democracy and totalitarian communism, has long been misunderstood. He challenges the popular Western narrative that economic superiority and democratic values led the USA to victory. Instead, he looks beyond the familiar images of East-West rivalry, shining a light on the impact of non-Western actors and placing the war in the context of global decolonization, Soviet weakness and the accidents of history. Here, he interrogates what happens when stability and peace are no longer the default, when treaties are broken and when diplomacy ceases to function.<br><br>Drawing on years of research and informed by Zubok\u2019s three decades in the USSR followed by three decades in the West,&nbsp;<em>The World of the Cold War&nbsp;<\/em>paints a striking portrait of a world on the brink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201eMonumental and still highly readable&#8230; by smartly knitting together the past with the present, Zubok\u2019s book brings a prescient and fresh perspective\u201c \u2013 <em>Financial Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201eWhy are there so few gripping histories of the Cold War? Many standard accounts are sensationally boring. This book is much better: brisk, spiky and unafraid to make provocative judgements&#8230; Zubok makes you think\u201c \u2013 <strong>Dominic Sandbrook<\/strong>,<em> Sunday Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Vladislav Zubok<\/strong>&nbsp;is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of several books, including&nbsp;<em>Collapse&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>A Failed Empire<\/em>, and is the recipient of the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Marshall Shulman Prize, as well as a finalist for the Cundill Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publisher: Pelican<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 01\/05\/2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Length: 544 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/303799\/the-world-of-the-cold-war-by-zubok-vladislav\/9780241696149\">https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/303799\/the-world-of-the-cold-war-by-zubok-vladislav\/9780241696149<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-World-Of-Cold-War.jpg?fit=277%2C445&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55931,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55931","url_meta":{"origin":47787,"position":0},"title":"\u201eGlobalization Projects of Regional Organizations\u201c, ur. 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