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Article: Natural Enemies: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War 1917-1991.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- August 1, 2001
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Natural Enemies: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, 1917-1991, by Robert C. Grogin. Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2001. xi, 353 pp. $29.95 U.S. (paper).
Historical writing on the Cold War has gone through three distinct phases: traditionalist, revisionist, and post-revisionist. In the 1950s, traditionalist historians maintained that the Cold War had been caused by Soviet aggression, that Soviet leaders were essentially implacable, and that the United States had responded reluctantly but effectively to check this aggression. In the 1960s and 1970s, revisionists such as William Appleman Williams turned the traditionalist interpretation on ...