Oscar Sanchez-Sibony is Associate Professor of History at University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market and Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khruschev.

June 13, 2024

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Market Ideologies

The Soviet Union and the fall of Bretton Woods

The Soviet Union’s construction of pipelines across Western Europe granted the superpower access to European markets—and capital. In his new book, The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market, Oscar Sanchez-Sibony demonstrates how this move challenged American dominance…