Cold War

Cameron Gordon

Chapter Chapter 25 in Many Possible Worlds, 2023, pp 695-737 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In one of the great, unintended consequences of history, the Germans, during First World WarFirst World War, arranged to return Vladimir Lenin to his native Russia with the idea of undermining their Eastern enemy. Although history is multi-causal, Lenin did play a singular role in creating a Communist Russia and the Soviet Union. A pariah state during the Interwar Period, after the end of World War 2 the Soviet Union became a leader of a new Socialist bloc in competition with the Capitalist West, with a new Non-Aligned movement of developing countries in between. There was also an uncomfortable era in which any wider war would likely lead to nuclear annihilation. It was a “Cold War” which fortunately never became hot—although there was plenty of conflict in many areas in the form of “proxy wars”.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-9281-0_25

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