ABSTRACT

This short essay provides a response to Salar Mohandesi’s intervention “Thinking the Global Sixties.” Utilizing the symbolic examples of George F. Kennan and Malcolm X, it argues that the historiography of the Cold War has been shaped by competing approaches of “containment” and “liberation” which reflect two understandings of the world at the time. The essay concludes by suggesting that the 1960s have come to represent not simply a time period, but an accretion of attitudes and perspectives resulting in a vantage point, whose intrinsic elusive qualities must be appreciated.

中文翻译：

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X与X：论冷战历史的遏制与解放

摘要

这篇短文回应了 Salar Mohandesi 的干预“思考全球六十年代”。利用乔治 F. 凯南和马尔科姆 X 的象征性例子，它认为冷战的史学是由“遏制”和“解放”的竞争方法塑造的，这反映了当时对世界的两种理解。文章最后指出，1960 年代不仅代表了一个时间段，而且代表了态度和观点的积累，从而形成了一个有利的位置，其内在难以捉摸的品质必须得到重视。