abstract:The Origins of the Cold War are widely regarded to lie most directly in the relations between the Soviet Union and the allies (the United States, Britain and France) in the years 1945–1947. Those events led to the Cold War that endured for just under half a century.
Of course, you may enjoy the book more if you share Buckley's political faith (an elegantly consistent conservatism extending back to theoriginsoftheColdWar), but it is not necessary that you do so.