{"product_id":"moral-superpower-in-the-cold-james-petrie-brown-9781350541870","title":"Moral Superpower in the Cold War: The Soviet Struggle for Human Rights Supremacy, 1964-1991","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book explores how the Cold War's ideological conflict was played out through competition over human rights values. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the West feared that the Soviet Union might 'win' the Cold war, it shows how they sought to aggressively outflank the USSR on human rights, while the Soviet Union simultaneously attempted to establish itself as a moral superpower, superior to the West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining how the Soviet leadership sought to respond to the West's amplification of prominent Soviet dissidents and global condemnation of their human rights abuses, they in turn depicted left-wing activists in the UK and the US as on par with famous Soviet dissidents in their press. Highlighting the extensive Soviet campaign to build global support for its image as a human rights' defender, it shows how they claimed support for striking trade unionists, protesting students, Native American rights activists and radical ant-racist groups, primarily in the UK and the US, to push a narrative of the inherent instability of capitalism in the two leading capitalist states. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExhibiting this ideological struggle and uncertainty between East and West in new ways, \u003ci\u003eMoral Superpower in the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e helps us to understand why the conflict took the trajectory that it did, and how it was experienced by those who lived through it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Petrie Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350541877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350541870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"James Petrie Brown","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659650674943,"sku":"9781350541870","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/moral-superpower-in-the-cold-james-petrie-brown-9781350541870","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}