Revisiting the Roots of the Cold War is history of the emergence of the Cold War from 1944-1948, emphasizing the recently available Soviet scholarship and other archives. Prior scholarship on the origins of the Cold War served as the basis for the final works of James Gaddis, George Kennan and Ernest May in the 1980s, and with no access to Soviet materials, ignored the effects of American demobilization and the major restructuring of the State and Defense Departments. This book represents a more realistic appreciation the formulation of U.S. policy.