Abstract
UNTIL RECENTLY THE POINTS of departure for the prevailing interpretation of the origins of the Cold War were the strongly anti-Communist assumptions of Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech of March 1946 and George F. Kennan's apologia for the policy of containment in the July, 1947, issue of Foreign Affairs. Influenced by the increasingly bitter rhetoric of Cold War polemicists as well as by events, most American historians of the 1950s depicted the Soviet Union as the nation mainly responsible for the polarization of the postwar world.1 Communist revolutionary ideology merged with historic Russian imperialism to produce Soviet tyranny in eastern and central Europe and the threat of a Communist take-over in western Europe from 1945 through 1948. According to this view, the United States had anticipated the continuation of war-imposed cooperation with the Soviet Union after the Axis
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