Cold War | Soviet Expansion Policies Initiated the Cold War

Cold War scholars who study the war’s origins fall into three general categories: traditionalists, who believe that Soviet expansion precipitated the Cold War; revisionists, who claim that U.S. hostility toward communism led to the Cold War; and post-revisionists, who argue that mutual misperceptions led to shared responsibility for the Cold War. Over the years, many Cold War scholars have dismissed the traditionalist argument. However, in the following viewpoint, Douglas J. Macdonald, professor of political science at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, argues that post–Cold...

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