The post - revisionist view is that the Cold War was an inevitable situation in the bipolar world and that both Superpowers are responsible for the events of 1945 -1990. .
Although, I personally would agree that the policies of the World War II played a significant role in shaping the international politics of the post - war world, and possibly could be blamed for the beginning of the Cold War. However, in my view, it is important to go back in time and have a look at the historical background of that issue.
The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. Considering the differences in the theories, there is a tendency in the west to place the whole responsibility on the shoulders of the Soviet Union. However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and political principles so critically opposed to democracy and industrial capitalism. Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. .
Under the new Government Russia wants to withdraw from the World War I that they were involved in at that time. Therefore, the Bolsheviks sign a separate peace treaty with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk on very unfavourable terms, giving up 1/3 of the population and 1/3 of the productive lands of the Russian Empire - including the Baltic States, Finland and some territory of Ukraine.
Shortly afterwards the first troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force leave for Murmansk and Arhangelsk to help the White Army, which was supporting the Tsar, in the civil war against the Bolsheviks, hoping, in Winston Churchill's phrase, to "strangle Bolshevism in the cradle". By the end of the year there were nearly 200.000 troops there from the USA, Britain, France and Japan.
