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This work traces the history of the Cold War, focusing on domestic politics and international imperatives, and covering the putative diplomatic rationales and the period of detente that ended in the late 1970s. Covering the period from the final months of World War II to the outcome of Russian Presidential elections of June 1996, it offers a thesis that events since the end of the Cold War proper do indeed reflect the hollowness of the victory of Western capitalism and liberal democratic values over the economic system and social values of the Soviet Union, its immediate empire and its farther-flung allies.