An Ideological Showdown
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Abstract

Before the defeat of Nazi Germany was even completed, it was clear that the “marriage of convenience” between the United States and the Soviet Union would not provide a stable unifying paradigm for the post–World War II world. Forged out of the necessity to defeat a common enemy, the grand alliance between the liberal United States and the Marxist-Leninist Soviet Union degenerated into an ideological conflict that divided the world along political, economic, and intellectual lines for the next forty-five years.

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