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Ideology and the Cold War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

MARK KRAMER
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Abstract

Western scholars have long disagreed about the role that ideology played in the Cold War. The release of crucial documentation from the former East-bloc archives has shed new light on this question, but no consensus is likely to emerge. Even if all the archives are eventually opened, the new evidence will not—and cannot—provide full vindication for either realism or an ideology-based approach. A key task for scholars will be to reexamine the broad and often unspoken assumptions on which specific US and Soviet policies were based.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of International Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 539 - 576
Copyright
© 1999 British International Studies Association

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