The Romance of Economic Development and New Histories of the Cold War

“Are we still behaving as revolutionaries?”: Radovan Richta, theory of revolution and dilemmas of reform communism in Czechoslovakia

“…For the transformation of state socialist modernity after 1956, seeEngerman (2004) andKrylova (2014).10 For the development of the STR research in the USSR, seeBuchholz (1975),Buchholz and Blakeley (1979),Cooper (1977),Hoffmann (1978),Hoffmann (1979) andGuth (2015). ''Are we still behaving as revolutionaries?…”

Introduction: The human sciences and Cold War America

“…Hence we may not be surprised to see important studies of the Cold War milieu of the human sciences appearing in Isis , the British Journal for the History of Science , Social Studies of Science , Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science , History of the Human Sciences , History of Psychology , History of Political Economy , Modern Intellectual History , Technology and Culture , or the Journal of the History of Ideas (Crowther‐Heyck, 1999, 2006b; Solovey, 2001; Amadae, 2005; Cohen‐Cole, 2007, 2009; Light, 2008; Isaac, 2009, 2010; Engerman, 2010a, 2010b; Martin‐Nielsen, 2010). But when we recognize that research in this vein is also published in the Journal of American History , the Journal of Cold War Studies , Past & Present , History Workshop Journal , and the Historical Journal or Diplomatic History , then we ought to acknowledge that the subject is one of considerable importance for the wider history of the postwar era (Marquis, 2000; Brick, 2000; Engerman, 2003, 2004, 2007; Isaac, 2007; Lemov, 2009; Mandler, 2009a, 2009b; Rohde, 2009; Meyerowitz, 2010). Indeed, this is something that mainstream historians of the Cold War such as Odd Arne Westad have made clear.…”

Sisyphus’ Palace

“…Myrdal is regularly credited as a key architect of the "Swedish Model", 15 which itself is frequently described as a successful "Middle Way" between economic liberalism and planned interventionism. 16 As an economist, Myrdal considered that economics was "about planning". 17 At ECE, he deplored the "absence of any satisfactory mechanism for extending long-range planning in the field of international trade".…”

“…They are "suppressed historical alternatives" to both the bi-polar logic of the Cold War and to a deterministic understanding of European integration. 16 Kiran Klaus Patel has argued that historiography and interdisciplinary scholarship on European integration have remained too narrowly focused on the EU and its immediate predecessors, and pleaded to "provincialize" the EC/EU within historical research. 17 By applying this perspective to other IOs active in the economic field, interaction and competition between IOs emerge as a process of reconstructing as well as negotiating Europe.…”

“…In practice, experts from Germany were regularly attached to the occupying powers' delegations, and participated in the activities of ECE's subsidiary bodies, but not in the plenary Commission sessions. The Federal Republic of Germany 16 Barrington Moore, Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt (New York, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1978), 376. 17 Kiran Klaus Patel, "Provincialising European Union: Co-operation and Integration in Europe in a Historical…”