Assumption Quote by Robert Conquest

The Cold War was obviously driven by a very intense ideological struggle that was very clearly defined.

— Fiona Hill

“The Cold War could have produced a hot war that might have ended human life on the planet. But because the fear of such…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“Soviet leaders had to treat the outside world as hostile because this provided the only excuse “for the dictatorship without which they did not…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the material conditions…

— Masha Gessen

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

— Jeff Sharlet

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the…

— Pat Buchanan

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

— Jeff Sharlet

“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles did not…

— Malcolm H. Murfett

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We…

— Fareed Zakaria

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek