Cold War - Why So Many Perspectives
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- Cold War - Why So Many Perspectives?
- Reason 1 - Historian and their unique perspectives.
- The historians come from different backgrounds, i.e different countries, and will be taught by different individuals.
- They will embrace different values, cultures, methodologies and religions.
- Views and priorities will be shaped by the people they know and where they came from.
- Reason 2 -complicating factors such as how recent the cold war was and its political diverseness.
- Some historians may of lived through the cold war so they can provide a first hand account of what happened.
- The political tensions of the cold war have not completely died down due to the fact that the cold war ended only 30 years ago
- Because of the recency of the cold war, competing viewpoints and ideologies still reverberate in modern societies.
- There are three main movements called the Orthodox, Revisionist and Post-revisionist.
- These movements share the same approach or position on the cold war and its causes
- But they mostly differ on their arguments and ideas.
- These movements share the same approach or position on the cold war and its causes
- Cold War Historiography
- Reason 1 - Historian and their unique perspectives.
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