{"product_id":"2026100011066-secondhand-the-great-contest-russia-and-the-west","title":"The Great Contest: Russia And The West","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Damaged\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: spine missing from the dj\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the height of the Cold War, when the fate of civilisation seemed to hang in the balance between two colossal powers, Isaac Deutscher's The Great Contest: Russia and the West cut through the fog of propaganda and fear with the precision of a master historian. Published in 1960, this incisive work dissects the ideological, political, and economic rivalry between the Soviet Union and the Western bloc, arguing with unflinching clarity that the conflict was as much a product of historical forces and misunderstanding as it was of irreconcilable difference. Deutscher presents a panoramic vision of the contest — one that refuses to reduce the struggle to simple binaries of good versus evil — instead chronicling the deep structural tensions that shaped the post-war world order.\n\nDeutscher, renowned for his landmark biographies of Trotsky and Stalin, brings to this work his hallmark blend of Marxist analytical rigour and vivid, accessible prose, illuminating how domestic pressures, imperial legacies, and revolutionary ambitions fuelled the standoff on both sides of the Iron Curtain. His writing challenges the reader to interrogate assumptions about Western liberalism and Soviet communism alike, arguing that peaceful coexistence was not merely desirable but historically inevitable. For anyone seeking to understand the deeper currents beneath the Cold War's turbulent surface, this landmark text raises a question that still resonates today: who, ultimately, won — and at what cost?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572801114331,"sku":"2026100011066-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/23a9f52f-e9be-4301-9cee-a5bf45a1b1fa.png?v=1791167447","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011066-secondhand-the-great-contest-russia-and-the-west","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}