Ralph B. Levering > Quotes

“The animosity that the overwhelming majority of Americans felt toward domestic communists and their sympathizers between 1917 and 1944—an attitude that typically was more intense and more consistent than the public’s generally distrustful but varying views of the U.S.S.R.—helps to explain why America’s international/domestic Cold War developed so swiftly after the wartime alliance with Russia ended. U.S.-Soviet”
― Ralph B. Levering, Debating the Origins of the Cold War: American and Russian Perspectives

“Some scholars argue that the Cold War began in 1917-1920 with the first ideological, political, and military clashes between the U.S.S.R. and the West. But most scholars (ourselves included) believe that it makes more sense to place the start of the Cold War in the mid-1940s when, as a result of victory in World War II, American and Soviet leaders had the military power, the economic resources, and the determination to engage in a far-flung and intense ideological, political, military, economic, and cultural struggle for influence.”
― Ralph B. Levering, Debating the Origins of the Cold War: American and Russian Perspectives