According to Kennan, Stalin needed to believe in the triumph of communism over capitalism to legitimize ... soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

While the Cold War was between two blocs, with other states taking a side, the ongoing WoT was supposed to be between ...

The Cold War was not only a geopolitical and ideological struggle but also a psychological one, with both the United States and the Soviet Union employing psychological tactics to influence global ...

The National Cold War Center and the Woodrow Wilson Center, whose parent company is the Smithsonian Institution, have ...

Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle ... power to individuals and companies: capitalism. The Soviets and their satellite states believed in communism, a political system where the ...

As she shows, even pro-market Republicans supported the liberal vision of the good society in the 1950s because there was an alternative to capitalism abroad during the Cold War. In fighting the ...