The central theme in much of traditionalist historiography was an ideological one: the United States, confronted by an implacably hostile foe for which no amount of Western conciliation would satisfy its global ambitions, came to the defense of freedom and democracy, saving the world from the spread of communist rule.8 This was the fortification needed that would generate policies towards dealing with the Soviet Union such as the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine, to which Keenan would also be involved with. ... Revisionists challenged the orthodox idea that U.S foreign policy after World...

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To appease the dictators needs, Mikhail Gorbachev, in his economic reform, cut out the monitoring cost and enlarged the feasible space of economy by allowing people, especially dictators, to privately own the companies (Harrison). ... As elites were allowed to own private companies, they accumulated much of the country's wealth. ...

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