... of flexibility from both sides was what made it so difficult to avoid a conflict. Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with ... their Marxist theory which advocated the need to spread revolution throughout the world. On the other hand, some other revisionist historians point at the US foreign policy as the culprit of the origins of th...

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... the first time in their lives. Even though we have been spectators to many of the greatest changes in history, we have not kept ourselves away from viewing tragedies. The Bolshevik Revolution caused Czarist Russia to be enslaved by plague of Socialism. Wars have been fought more often and have been more deadly. There have been countless terrorism attempts to create World ... ...

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... up we know as the Cold War. When Europe was thrown into World War I in 1914, Tsar Nicholas II joined with the allies and declared war on Germany. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 the new communist Soviet Union no longer had a struggle among imperialists, they then signed a separate peace with Germany and proclaimed their main goal, which was to overthrow world ... ...

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