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• W2324236275 abstract "THE CASUAL VIEWER of CNN's 24-part Cold War series will come away convinced of at least three things: nuclear missiles are horribly dangerous, Joseph McCarthy was nearly as bad as Joseph Stalin, and American mules are much bigger and stronger than Greek mules. This last bit of information is worth noting because Cold War seems to think it was important: in a episode ostensibly devoted to the Marshall Plan and the origins of the cold war in the late 1940s, the producers spent more than a few baffling minutes of airtime on Greek peasants who attested firmly that the mules sent from the United States to replace those lost in the war were more than adequate. 'The mules were very good,' a Greek farmer tells the off-camera interviewer. 'They were fat and big. And we began to use the mules to plough.'The attention devoted to mules is, of course, part of Cold War's attempt to tell the epic tale of the confrontation between East and West through the stories of people, both exalted and ordinary. It fails, not least because this disruptive shift in emphasis from presidents and premiers to students and workers comes at the expense of more substantive issues which are, in the end, left unexplored. It is not particularly interesting (even if it is a surprise to younger viewers) to note that many citizens of both the East and the West lived in fear during the cold war - and, as if to make the point repeatedly, the series is replete with ominous music and exploding mushroom clouds - nor does it add to our understanding of the cold war merely to emphasize that it scared a great many people.Nonetheless, the series is worth watching if only for the startling visual detail in which it renders an era, especially with spectacular colour footage from the Soviet bloc unseen until now. The interviews with top officials from both East and West are likewise fascinating, and Cold War will probably stand as the last film record that will ever be made of the reminiscences of people like Clark Clifford, Anatoly Dobrynin, and even Fidel Castro. An academic audience will find interesting details and useful comments scattered here and there throughout these interviews and film clips. (Episodes on 'Spies' and 'Sputnik' stand out here.)But for those viewers who are not specialists in history or politics, Cold War obscures more than it explains. The series is organized thematically rather than chronologically (although there is a loose march from 1945 to 1991 across the episodes), which not only undermines any sense of continuity to the history of the conflict, but also removes important events from their context. Moreover, most episodes are written in oddly stilted, indirect language that makes those same events seem merely to happen rather than to have been caused by either superpower.The use of a disorderly structure and overly judicious tone is not accidental. It is meant to present Cold War's thesis of moral equivalence between East and West with understatement and by implication. The producers would no doubt argue that they strove for balance, and they have achieved it: the Soviet Union and the United States seem equally culpable in prosecuting the cold war (although the clear credit for its end is given to Mikhail Gorbachev). If there is an underlying 'plot' to Cold War, it is this: the Soviet Union was an insecure state that mostly wanted to be left alone and whose intentions were misunderstood, while the United States - blessed with material prosperity the likes of which those in the Soviet Union could only dream about - consistently failed to grasp the innate weakness and deeply fearful nature of its enemy. (Oh, and yes: thank heaven for Gorbachev.) If this were presented clearly as the editorial viewpoint, it might have served to strengthen the series as a teaching tool or a source of debate. Instead, Cold War tries to establish its position by sleight of hand, using careful wording and misleading editing rather than simply admitting its bias from the outset. …" @default.
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• W2324236275 title "Mules, Missiles, and McCarthy" @default.
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