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The Origins of the Cold War and the Problems of Synthesis: A Review of Recent Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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References

1 John, Lewis Gaddis, ‘The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War’, Diplomatic History, Vol. 7 (Summer 1983), 171.Google Scholar

2 The term and the idea behind it is Herbert Butterfield's, as cited by Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr, in ‘The Cold War Revisited’, New York Review of Book, 25 Oct. 1979, 46.Google Scholar

3 Gaddis, John, ‘The Tragedy of Cold War History’, Diplomatic History, Vol. 17 (Winter 1993), 79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 The fact that the conference on which this book is based took place in 1985 perhaps explains this omission. One wonders, though, why it took so long to publish the book.