End of the Cold War and Promises

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378114%3A_____%2F23%3A00580161" target="_blank" >RIV/68378114:_____/23:00580161 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://sd.usd.cas.cz/pdfs/sod/2023/03/08.pdf" target="_blank" >https://sd.usd.cas.cz/pdfs/sod/2023/03/08.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

End of the Cold War and Promises

Original language description

The Triumph of Broken Promises tells the story of how the pressure to break promises spurred the end of the Cold War. In the West, neoliberalism provided Western leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher with the political and ideological tools to shut down industries, impose austerity, and favor the interests of capital over labor. But in Eastern Europe, revolutionaries like Lech Walesa in Poland resisted any attempt at imposing market discipline. Mikhail Gorbachev tried in vain to reform the Soviet system, but the necessary changes ultimately presented too great a challenge. Faced with imposing economic discipline antithetical to communist ideals, Soviet-style governments found their legitimacy irreparably damaged. But in the West, politicians could promote austerity as an antidote to the excesses of ideological opponents, setting the stage for the rise of the neoliberal global economy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-23131S" target="_blank" >GA20-23131S: Transformation of the Czech Business: Socialist Enterprises in Market Economy</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů