Wedgism
Neal Ascherson: Cold War Stories, 23 July 2009
Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain and International Communism 1945-50
by Marc Selverstone.
Harvard, 304 pp., £36.95, February 2009,978 0 674 03179 1 Show More
by Marc Selverstone.
Harvard, 304 pp., £36.95, February 2009,
“... and was deported to China). This story, it seems to me, illustrates two strands which run through Marc Selverstone’s study of Western policy in the formative years of the Cold War. One is the notion of the ‘Communist monolith’, a giant command structure through which the Soviet Union controlled the thoughts and actions of every Communist in the ... ”
