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Historiography of the Cold War
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Make sure that you understand the different interpretations of the Cold War
• In TRIOS: divide the readings & take notes re: interpretations of the Cold War  Then share out
Orthodox / Traditional
(Western Liberal)
Soviet Orthodox
(Reference Marxism here)
Revisionist
Post-revisionist
Post Cold War
1989/1991+
Reevaluate previous ideas
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Now go back to Cold War Origins: Europe 1945-1955 (Pink sheet)& Fill in historiography side of the chart
The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
Ronald E. Powaski
Oxford University Press, USA (September 25, 1997)
DEBATING THE ORIGINSOF THE COLD WAR
American and Russian Perspectives
The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
Ronald E. Powaski
Oxford University Press, USA (September 25, 1997)
THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE
Vladimir 0. Pechatnov and C. Earl Edmondson :
Some Reflections on Cold War Historiography
Edward Crapol
College of William and Mary
The Traditional or Orthodox interpretation:
(aka Western Liberal)
*Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Herbert Feis, Louis J Halle, Richard Pipes
The Revisionist interpretation:
*The formal anti-thesis to the Western Liberal perspective began in
1959 with the publication of William Appleman Williams’ The
Tragedy of American Diplomacy.
*1960s, Revisionism, New Left: Walter LaFeber, Gar Alperovitz…
The Post-Revisionist interpretation:
*Attempts at synthesis (of Orthodox and Revisionist histories), New
Left Revisionism…
*John Lewis Gaddis: The Untied States and the Origins of the Cold
War 1941-1947, published in 1972
*The godfather of Post-Revisionism
How would a ______
historian interpret
each of these events?
Western Liberal
(Orthodox USA)
Soviet Orthodox
Revisionist
(USA)
Post-Revisionist
(USA)
Post-Cold War
(USSR)
Marxist
Red Army occupation of
Eastern Europe, 19451947
Kennan’s Long Telegram,
February 1946
Churchill’s Iron Curtain
Speech, March 1946
& Stalin’s Response
Truman Doctrine &
Marshall Plan, 1947
How would a ______
historian interpret each
of these events?
Western Liberal
(Orthodox USA)
Soviet Orthodox
Revisionist
(USA)
Post-Revisionist
(USA)
Post-Cold War
(USSR)
Marxist
Czech Coup, February
1948
Berlin Crisis, 1948-9
Blockade & Airlift
NATO, 1949
&
Warsaw Pact, 1955
NSC-68,
April 1950