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Ep 123: Sergey Radchenko on Soviet Motivations in the Cold War

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Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and author of To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power, joins the show to talk about the strategic aims of the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War and how the Soviets attempted to run the world.

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• 01:17 Introduction

• 02:32 A novel argument

• 08:36 Power and recognition

• 11:51 Who started the Cold War?

• 14:55 The American dilemma

• 17:09 Fukuyama

• 21:21 Nuclear guarantees

• 25:16 The shadow of WWII

• 29:44 Flippancy and boredom

• 32:06 Détente

• 32:12 Backstabbing

• 37:52 American lecturing

• 45:39 Sources of Soviet collapse

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Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack

Follow the link to buy the book - To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power

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132 episodes

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Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and author of To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power, joins the show to talk about the strategic aims of the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War and how the Soviets attempted to run the world.

▪️

Times

• 01:17 Introduction

• 02:32 A novel argument

• 08:36 Power and recognition

• 11:51 Who started the Cold War?

• 14:55 The American dilemma

• 17:09 Fukuyama

• 21:21 Nuclear guarantees

• 25:16 The shadow of WWII

• 29:44 Flippancy and boredom

• 32:06 Détente

• 32:12 Backstabbing

• 37:52 American lecturing

• 45:39 Sources of Soviet collapse

Follow along on Instagram

Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack

Follow the link to buy the book - To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power

  continue reading

132 episodes

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