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Stalin's postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

— John Lewis Gaddis The Cold War: A New History (2005)

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Learning about the past liberates the learner from oppressions earlier constructions of the past have imposed upon them.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002)

Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their leaders assumed, would also do so for the rest of the world.

The Cold War: A New History (2005)

The Cold War could have produced a hot war that might have ended human life on the planet. But because the fear of such a war turned out to be greater than all of the differences that separated the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies, there was now reason for hope that it would never take place.

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