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This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallengeable theory of history

The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

For just as the Cold War had frozen the results of World War II in place, so détente sought to freeze the Cold War in place. Its purpose was not to end that conflict—the differences dividing its antagonists were still too deep for that—but rather to establish rules by which

The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

East Germany then set about transforming itself into a proletarian state, no easy task since it had always been chiefly an

The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

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