McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. ... George Kennan, at the time the Ambassador to the Soviet Union, wrote what is called his "Long Telegram." ...

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