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Cold War History Studies in the English Academic World in Recent Twenty Years:Retrospect,Critique and Prospects

  • Ya-feng XIA
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Accepted date: 2021-12-04

  Online published: 2022-01-22

Abstract

Three correlative traits stand out in the Cold War history studies in the English world in the first 20 years of the 21st Century. First, with the “decentration” in the Cold War studies, the relationship between the Cold War and the Third World becomes a hotspot issue. Second, renewed attention is paid to the Cold War history in Europe, putting Europe in the central place rather than treating it as an object in great-power confrontation. Third, there are still lots of influential works on U.S.-Soviet Cold War History, in particular, on the peaceful end of the Cold War. Although scholars continue to debate on some of the very basic issues regarding the Cold War, Cold War studies will be an eternal field of inquiry. It will be remembered and studied like such historical events as World War I and World War II.

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Ya-feng XIA . Cold War History Studies in the English Academic World in Recent Twenty Years:Retrospect,Critique and Prospects[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2022 , 54(1) : 82 -94 . DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2022.01.008

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