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to stress the aggressive expansionist nature of Soviet Marxism. In the 1960s, possibly influenced by the experience of the Vietnam War, which led many Americans to critically reflect on their own nation’s policies and history, a ‘revisionist’ school of Cold War historians emerged. Figures like David Horowitz, From Yalta to Vietnam (a significant title) tended to stress the defensive nature of Soviet foreign policy, and the aggressive character of US policy; a clear reversal of roles. In more recent times a new school of ‘post-revisionists’ have come to the fore