Analysis reveals Tocqueville’s and Custine’s perspectives on the Cold War, suggesting deeper ideological connections.
Only over a century after their first publication did American commentators read Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835, 1840) and Astolphe de Custine’s Russia in 1839 (1843) jointly and recognized in the two works complementary visionary explanations of the Cold War underway.
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