| Sumario: | A crisis of modernity -- specifically the crisis of a modern vision of society -- arose in the United States and in the Soviet Union following World War II, simultaneously with competition between capitalism and socialism and an ongoing Cold War. Both countries faced similar economic and social crises that demanded resolution through globalization. This meant that it was necessary to reconsider the very basis of social order that had been formed in the 1930s and manifested in politics, economics, science and mass culture. On the one hand, America saw a counter-culture develop while it entered a period of capitalist globalization. On the other hand, the Soviet Union remained within its existing paradigms, and did not try to promote a socialist project of globalization. This led to its eventual collapse and integration into global capitalism.
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