Article: We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History.

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, by John Lewis Gaddis (Oxford, 425 pp., $30)

Mr. Rodman is director of national-security programs at the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom and a senior editor of NR.

THE struggle over history is not an exercise in pedantry. The Soviets understood this well, as they went about the Orwellian business of regularly rewriting the past: it was a way to try to shape the present and future. It is poetic justice, therefore, that the Soviet defeat in the Cold War is now being ratified by the historiographic confirmation -- from Communist archives -- of certain basic truths about how that great East - West contest began. For ...

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