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A 3 page book review. Gregory Mitrovich, in his text Undermining the Kremlin (2000), holds that US policymakers felt that the Soviet threat should be eliminated, not merely contained, and that containment was "only the first step in a determined effort to "destroy Soviet power" (Mitrovich 2). To support this argument, Mitrovich consults an impressive list of primary source documents that were declassified in the late 1990s. This is an impressive work of scholarship on the Cold War, which presents the era as a war of ideas. No additional sources cited.
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out that "conventional wisdom" maintains that the former Soviet Union was defeated by the policies of the US, which concentrated on the prevention of Soviet expansion "beyond its post-World War
II sphere of influence" (Mitrovich 1). The argument that Mitrovich differs from this assessment and holds that US policymakers felt that the Soviet threat should be eliminated, not merely contained,
and that containment was "only the first step in a determined effort to "destroy Soviet power" (Mitrovich 2). To support this argument, Mitrovich consults an impressive list of primary source
documents that were declassified in the late 1990s. This is an impressive work of scholarship on the Cold War, which presents the era as a war of ideas. This perspective
offers the reader considerable insight into the psychological framework of American policy at this time. Mitrovich argues that American policy was considerably more aggressive than has been previously understood.
This policy, which was predominant from 1948 to 1956, was designed to "roll back Soviet power from Eastern Europe and to undermine communist control of the USSR itself" using measures
that fell "short of war" but included all other available means, particularly psychological warfare (Mitrovich 2). From this position, Mitrovich begins to outline the rationale of American foreign policy at
this time, which includes the fears of policymakers regarding the Soviet threat, as well as their perspective on the ramifications of the situation to the global economy. The primary
source documents consulted for this text support Mitrovichs position and indicate that the primary goal of US foreign policy was to instigate the fall of Communism. However, Mitrovich also points
out that "American efforts to exploit Soviet vulnerabilities remain among the most sensitive materials in the National Archives system" (Mitrovich 13). While thousands of documents have been declassified, the
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