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LSE Literary Festival 2011 - Through the Soviet Looking-Glass

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Speaker: Francis Spufford

Chair: Professor Janet Hartley

This event was recorded on 19 February 2011 in Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building

At first sight, the USSR of the 1950s and 1960s is a formidably remote and strange place for an early 21st-century western observer to try to inhabit: ideological, materially alien, suffused with obsolete expectations, and operating in its daily life and economic life according to rules that eerily reverse our own. But the reward for crossing this particular imaginative border, argues Francis Spufford, is the discovery, in the mirrorworld of the Soviet Union, of deeply recognisable human behaviour, and deeply familiar human hopes.

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The Third World’s War

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Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson

Chair: Professor Michael Cox

This event was recorded on 24 November 2010 in Old Theatre, Old Building

Although never a "hot" war between the superpowers, the Cold War was waged partly through a series of proxy wars in Third World countries from Guatemala to Korea to Vietnam. Although a great deal of attention has been devoted to a select number of U.S. Interventions in the Third World, there is an urgent need to see the "Third World’s War" in perspective, showing how successful the Soviet Union was in pursuing a strategy of fomenting revolution and how consistently successive U.S. administrations behaved in response. Professor Niall Ferguson is the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs for the 2010-2011 academic year.

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