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Russians Are Coming, Again - The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce (Hardcover)
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Russians Are Coming, Again - The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce (Hardcover)
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“In The Russians are Coming Again, Jeremy Kuzmarov and John
Marciano present an excellent and well researched effort to remind
liberal America of how awful the Cold War was and how it was based
on a cynical exaggeration of a largely fictional `Russian
threat.’ Their warning against creating a new Cold War with
post-communist Russia is well worth considering.”—David N.
Gibbs, University of Arizona, author, First Do No Harm:
Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia Karl
Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
that history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce.”
The Cold War waged between the United States and Soviet Union from
1945 until the latter's dissolution in 1991 was a great tragedy,
resulting in millions of civilian deaths in proxy wars, and a
destructive arms race that diverted money from social spending and
nearly led to nuclear annihilation. The New Cold War between the
United States and Russia is playing out as farce – a dangerous
one at that. The Russians Are Coming, Again is a red flag to
restore our historical consciousness about U.S.-Russian relations,
and how denying this consciousness is leading to a repetition of
past follies. Kuzmarov and Marciano's book is timely and trenchant.
The authors argue that the Democrats’ strategy, backed by the
corporate media, of demonizing Russia and Putin in order to
challenge Trump is not only dangerous, but also, based on the
evidence so far, unjustified, misguided, and a major distraction.
Grounding their argument in all-but-forgotten U.S.-Russian history,
such as the 1918-20 Allied invasion of Soviet Russia, the book
delivers a panoramic narrative of the First Cold War, showing it as
an all-too avoidable catastrophe run by the imperatives of class
rule and political witch-hunts. The distortion of public memory
surrounding the First Cold War has set the groundwork for the New
Cold War, which the book explains is a key feature, skewing the
nation’s politics yet again. This is an important, necessary
book, one that, by including accounts of the wisdom and courage of
the First Cold War's victims and dissidents, will inspire a fresh
generation of radicals in today's new, dangerously farcical times.
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