# Cold War, Decolonisation and Economic Transitions

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Martin Daunton
- Year: 2023
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics, History
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/economic-transitions)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Different models of economic modernity competed during the Cold War. Washington feared that the transition from colonial peasant societies would provide an opening for Marxists, as in Vietnam. But by 1989, the Soviet economic model was in crisis and attempts to create a market economy led to Putin’s kleptocracy. In China, the disaster of Mao’s Great Leap Forward was followed by successful transformation. Why did the Soviet Union fail where China succeeded?

## Lectures

1. [Markets and Marxism: USA, USSR and China](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-economic-transitions/6f5dd9b4c6fe) (YouTube)
2. [Export-Led Growth in the Asian Tiger Economies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-economic-transitions/cf0c0cab738d) (YouTube)
3. [What went wrong in Latin America? The failures of import-substituting industrialisation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-economic-transitions/359b0252c9a3) (YouTube)