Endgame of the Long Cold War

... question is whether there was an illusion about the West; one which returned in the late 1980s and the ... ... but had its roots in 1956 and after. There were at least three major sources of the Sino-Soviet split, ... ... perspective that prevailed up until then in the first Cold War decade under Stalin, Molotov and Kaganovich,... ... convergent view about the Atlantic alliance among the core Eurasian states, and therefore the main causative factor ... ... different today, to the one that prevailed in the USSR in 1956 and after, contributing to the Sino-Soviet ...