John Lewis Gaddis, in Diplomatic History Cold War Ashes (Summer 1983), Scholarly Resources
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Among American historians, the debate over the causes of the Cold War is still a hot topic.
Until the late 1960s, the orthodox view was that Josef Stalin's aggres- sive stance forced America into the Cold War during the late 1940s. Then, New Left "revisionist" historians, such as Oregon State's Wil- liam Appleman Williams and York University's...