The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
by
Jeremy Kuzmarov, John Marciano
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
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...