In The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 Vladislav Zubok argues that circumstance rather than ideology shaped the clash ...

The Cold War wasn’t just fought in the White House and the Kremlin. In American and Soviet homes, the capitalism-communism divide was a topic of conversation at many a kitchen table — and ...

The Cold War with the Soviet Union provided the ... The Republican Party now claims to be “standing between capitalism and communism.” But the capitalism it promotes—of the self-reliant ...

According to Kennan, Stalin needed to believe in the triumph of communism over capitalism to legitimize ... soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle ... power to individuals and companies: capitalism. The Soviets and their satellite states believed in communism, a political system where the ...

Communism was pitted against capitalism, which relies on democracy ... The year marked the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War between that power and the U.S. The U.S. emerged ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the then-Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday at 91, according to the Gorb ...