Robert Gellately, “Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War” (Knopf, 2013)

It takes two to tango, right? Indeed it does. But it’s also true that someone has got to ask someone else to dance before any tangoing is done. Beginning in the 1960s, the American intellectual elite argued–and seemed to really believe–that the United States either started the Cold War full...

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