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No Alternative? - Max Krahé The Triumph of Broken Promises By Fritz Bartel Harvard University Press, 2022 The Triumph of Broken Promises by Fritz Bartel is a new history of the end of the Cold War. Challenging conventional narratives that focus on Reagan’s military-ideological assertiveness or Gorbachev’s openness to reform, the book gives a material and structural explanation of Western victory and Eastern defeat. 1 Throughout this review, I use “the East” or “the Eastern bloc” and “the West” or “Western states” etc. to denote, respectively, the seven European COMECON members (the USSR,

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