Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: How the Cold War made the modern worldPub date: 2025-09-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor most of the latter half of the 20th century, the world was frozen in a standoff. The Cold War era was defined by the ideological fissure between capitalism, led by the United States, and communism, espoused by the Soviet Union. But in a new book, Vladislav Zubok challenges much of the accepted wisdom that has shaped popular perspectives about this standoff since 1991. Speaking to Danny Bird, Zubok discusses why Americans were far more ideological than their Soviet contemporaries; why decolonisation and the Global South became the ‘nuclear fuel’ that sustained the Cold War; and how the conflict’s conclusion in the 1990s continues to reverberate in global affairs to this day.

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