On Sep 14, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote:
> LP : "The bottom line is that the encroachment of NATO at the doorstep > of Russia is a direct outcome of the encroachment of the Red Army on > nations throughout Eastern Europe." > > At the end of World War Two, the Soviet Union - which did most of the > fighting and dying - had advanced to crush the Nazi empire: Germany and > the regions between Germany and the Soviet Union. The war had originated > in large part by German designs on the Soviet Union, encouraged by > appeasers in the West. But socialism survived, and the capitalist powers > were still implacably set on destroying it. So, > > 1. The U.S. imperialists, with their British partners, started the Cold > War and created NATO. > or > 2. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are both to blame for the Cold War. > or > 3. The Soviet Union started the Cold War. > > The third position is held by the State Department and LP. Louis has not read - or, more likely, would now repudiate - the interpretation of the origins of the Cold War commonly held by the so-called radical and left liberal “revisionist” historians: William Appleman Williams (Tragedy of American Diplomacy), Lloyd Gardner (Architects of Illusion), Barton Bernstein (“American Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Cold War”). Walter LaFeber (America, Russia, and the Cold War), Gabriel Kolko (Politics of War), Richard Barnet (Roots of War), Thomas Paterson (Soviet-American Confrontation), David Horowitz (Empire and Revolution), Bruce Kuklick (American Policy and the Division of Germany), Gar Alperovitz (Atomic Diplomacy), Harry Magdoff (Age of Imperialism), Ronald Steel (Pax Americana), Stephen Ambrose (Rise to Globalism), Richard Freeland (Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism), Athan Theoharis (Seeds of Repression), Diane Shaver Clemens (Yalta), Lawrence Wittner (Cold War America), and D. F. Fleming (The Cold War and Its Origins). _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
