Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. ... It can also be argued, however, that 'expansionism' and self interest were the reasons why the Cold War started. ... Gaddis endorses his hypothesis with some examples from domestic policy such as the continuation of communes even though they proved inefficient, expansion and consolidation of power in Eastern Europe up to 1953 as safegua...

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