... action which neither was able to prevent. There are several views as to whose fault the Cold War was and these views can be traced back to the inter war era. However the topic for debate mainly seems to be who was to blame. The traditionalists1 and post- neo revisionists2 blamed the USSR and Stalin, the revisionists3 blamed the US and the neo-revisionists4 took a balance of the two positions. My view would be that of the neo-revisionists showing both sides to be at fault in some way and the Cold War arising from an unfortunate but understandable series of mistakes and misunderstandings. The first seeds of mistrust between the powers were sown as far back as 1917, with the Russian revolution occurring and the new government pulling Russia out of the First World War and concluding a separate peace with Germany (Treaty of Brest Litovsk in 1918). This not ...

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