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Neoliberalism, consumerism and the end of the Cold War
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As the Berlin Wall fell, the American academic Francis Fukuyama declared that state socialism had collapsed because it was on the wrong side of History in two respects: its rejection of liberal democracy had failed to grant the mass of people the ‘dignity’ they demanded; and its hostility to the market had prevented it from providing decent living standards for populations that had been living under it. 1 And while Fukuyama’s thesis on the inevitable victory of liberal capitalism has come und...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 87.5KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.4324/9781315882284.ch28
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Pages:
- 401-415
- Host title:
- The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
- DOI:
- ISBN:
- 9781134700653
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- HISTORY:13
- Deposit date:
- 2013-10-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Taylor and Francis
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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