'Oscar Sanchez-Sibony's new book is about the role of the Soviet Union in, as he puts it, 'the dismantling of our previous era.' To describe it as a contribution to the new wave of economic history does not do it justice. It is that, but also so much more - more capacious and more precise, more provocative and more satisfying, and engagingly written too.' Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Jack and Margaret Sweet Professor Emeritus of History, Michigan State University
List of Figures; Introduction; Prologue: The Grain Crisis, 1963; Chapter 1. Italy, Cold War Maverick; Chapter 2. Great Britain: Bretton Woods and the Financial Fix; Chapter 3. Austria: Bretton Woods and the Soviet Politics of Liberalization; Chapter 4. West Germany: Betrayal, Stagnation, and the Triumph of Capitalization; Chapter 5. France: The Travails of Institutionalization; Coda. Italy, Cold War Straggler; Bibliography; Index.