The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War

ISBN: 9780691618579 出版年：2015 页码：179 Maddox, Robert James Princeton University Press

As more and more people are questioning the assumptions of present u.S. Foreign policy they are reexamining the roots of these policies in the diplomacy of the cold war. This scrutiny has made the origins of the cold war the most controversial issue in american diplomatic history. Now a complete new dimension has been added to the debate by the charges leveled by robert james maddox in the new left and the origins of the cold war. How did the cold war begin? who or what was responsible? could it have been avoided? was it a temporary condition created by a combination of individual personalities and historical factors, or did it represent the clash of fundamentally irreconcilable political systems? the orthodox explanation of the cold war is that it was "the brave and essential response of free men to communist aggression.