The final years of the Cold War became a contest over who could best ... The toll of pricier oil was also deeply felt on the periphery of global capitalism. Brazil, for example, saw a period ...

In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that circumstance rather than ideology shaped the clash ...

The National Cold War Center (NCWC) announced today that Dr. Christian Ostermann, one of the world’s foremost authorities on ...

The end of the Cold War made clear the triumph of capitalism over other economic systems. But in the decades since, the modern form of American-style capitalism has been showing some cracks.

But the US, unsatisfied with its preeminent role in global capitalism and insisting on establishing and consolidating absolute power, risks a greater but unwinnable economic Cold War — or worse.

The Cold War and its effects ... Its programs and policies were a series of experiments—state capitalism, War Communism, Stalinist despotism, and for the four post-Stalin decades a quite ...

Capitalism, they feared ... But a century and a half after that, with the Cold War ended and globalism ascendant, Marx’s successors sometimes seemed convinced that the old dialectical machinery ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the then-Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday at 91, according to the Gorb ...