Historiography

The Orthodox School:

• aggressive and expansionist foreign policy of Stalin and the USSR
• Soviet government was hostile to the west
• lays blame of Cold War at Stalin's feet

The Revolutionist School;

• sees the provocative actions of the USA rather than those of USSR
• stresses the defensive actions of Stalin's foreign policy
• critical of America and the American system

Post-revolutionist School;

• sees historians move away from the tendency…