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The happy, dialectal view of Cold War historiography tells the story of academics rejecting
fallacious extremes and moving towards a more reasonable synthesis 1. There are three main
schools of thought on the explanation of the cold war2. The first is exemplified by George
Kennan’s Long Telegram3. The orthodox interpretation, favoured by the contemporary U.S
administration, places the U.S on the moral high ground, simply reacting to Soviet aggression
and expansionism. In the 1960s the revisionist school rose in response and instead blamed
rampant American economic imperialism, which conflicted with reasonable Soviet security
worries. Unimpressed by these simplistic, […] .
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In response to the ideology laced rhetoric of traditionalists some revisionists sought to
excuse the Soviet Union as merely exhibiting the behaviour of a traditional great power. They
were not forcing a dogma driven world revolution but simply practicing realpolitik. […]
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Gaddis, John, L., ‘The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War’, Diplomatic History,
Vol. 7, Issue No.3, (1983), pp.15-21.
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White Timothy, J., ‘Cold War Historiography: New Evidence Behind Traditional Typographies’, International Social
Science Review, Vol. 75, Numbers ¾, (2000), p.18
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Kennan, George. ‘The Long Telegram, February 22, 1946’,
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm, (Date Accessed: 24/11/10)
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