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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">humanities</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Гуманитарные науки. Вестник Финансового университета</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Humanities and Social Sciences. Bulletin of the Financial University</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2226-7867</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2619-1482</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Financial University under The Government of Russian Federation</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.26794/2226-7867-2023-13-4-91-99</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">humanities-857</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>CURRENT SOCIO-POLITICAL RESEARCH</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Образ Советского Союза в контексте современного противостояния США и Китая. Взгляд raNd Corporation 2022 (военно-политический аспект)</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Image of the Soviet Union in the Context of the Contemporary Confrontation between the United states and China. the view of raNd Corporation 2022 (Political-Military aspect)</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6399-5162</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Сперкач</surname><given-names>А. И.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Sperkach</surname><given-names>A. I.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Александр Иванович Сперкач — кандидат исторических наук, старший преподаватель департамента политологии</p><p>Москва</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Alexander I. Sperkach — Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Sciences</p><p>Moscow</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">sperksperk@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Финансовый университет</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Financial University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2023</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>08</day><month>10</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>13</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>91</fpage><lpage>99</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Сперкач А.И., 2023</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Сперкач А.И.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Sperkach A.I.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://humanities.fa.ru/jour/article/view/857">https://humanities.fa.ru/jour/article/view/857</self-uri><abstract><p>Главный источник настоящей статьи — доклад «The Return of Great Power War: Scenarios of Systemic Conflict Between the United States and China. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation; 2022» (далее — Доклад). Рассматривая современное противостояние США и КНР, пытаясь наметить его будущие границы и сюжеты, американские аналитики более 70 раз ссылаются на советский опыт, дают различные оценки Советскому Союзу, в том числе в контексте прежнего глобального соперничества с ним. Такой ретроспективный взгляд из-за океана представляет немалый интерес для исследования сам по себе. Однако речь в настоящей статье идет не столько о воспроизведении представлений аналитиков RAND Corporation, сколько о пояснении причин, почему в тех или иных случаях эти представления ошибочны, что, в свою очередь, делает необходимым обозначение альтернативной, более релевантной картины возможностей и реалий СССР. А так как они рассматриваются в сопоставлении с возможностями других глобальных лидеров, в статью инкорпорировано рассмотрение достаточно широкого круга тем. С учетом того, что в Докладе проводится сопоставление четырех глобальных лидеров последних столетий (начиная с середины XVIII в.), в статье присутствуют сюжеты, связанные с Британской империей и современным Китаем. Они позволяют более полно раскрыть как тему специфичности советского опыта, так и наглядно продемонстрировать причины некоторых аберраций, которые, по мнению автора статьи, присутствуют в Докладе.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The primary source for this article is the report on “The Return of Great Power War: Scenarios of Systemic Conflict Between the United States and China”. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation; 2022 (hereinafter referred to as the Report). When considering the current confrontation between the United States and China and trying to outline its future boundaries and plots, American analysts refer to the Soviet experience more than 70 times and give various assessments of the Soviet Union, including in the context of the former global rivalry with it. This retrospective view from across the ocean is of considerable interest in itself. However, this article is not so much about reproducing the perceptions of RAND Corporation analysts as it is about explaining why these perceptions are wrong in certain cases, which, in turn, makes it necessary to outline an alternative, more relevant picture of the USSR’s capabilities and realities. And since they are considered in comparison with the capabilities of other global leaders, the article incorporates consideration of a fairly wide range of topics. Given that the Report compares four global leaders of the last centuries (starting from the mid-18th century), the article includes subjects related to the British Empire and contemporary China. They make it possible to more fully reveal both the specificity of the Soviet experience and to demonstrate the reasons for some aberrations, which, in the opinion of the author of the article, are present in the Report.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>СССР</kwd><kwd>США</kwd><kwd>военно-морской флот</kwd><kwd>экономика</kwd><kwd>КНР</kwd><kwd>морские коммуникации</kwd><kwd>глобальное лидерство</kwd><kwd>противостояние сверхдержав</kwd><kwd>ядерный потенциал</kwd><kwd>Британская империя</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>USSR</kwd><kwd>USA</kwd><kwd>navy</kwd><kwd>economy</kwd><kwd>PRC</kwd><kwd>maritime communications</kwd><kwd>global leadership</kwd><kwd>confrontation of superpowers</kwd><kwd>nuclear potential</kwd><kwd>British Empire</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Работа выполнена при финансовой поддержке Министерства науки и высшего образования Российской федерации (код научной темы FZRS-2022–0003) в рамках государственного задания ФГБОУ ВО «МГУ им. 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