Post-Revisionism was the idea that the Cold War was caused by both the United States and the Soviet Union. This view supported ideas from both Orthodox and Revisionist views such as the Cold War was started by both Soviet hostility and U.S. efforts to dominate the world after WWII. Post-Revisionists do not believe that one side caused the Cold War but believe that both countries actions and distrust of each other had caused tension to build up and finally release into all-out hatred of one another. One Post-Revisionist, John Lewis Gaddis, put the blame more on the Soviets due to more control over their country and therefore a better position to compromise with the West. The blame was not just of the Soviets. The U.S. domestic policy and politics was skewed against talking and compromising with the Soviets due to a massive fear of Communism.
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