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“Professor David Holloway in his excellent book, Stalin and the bomb, talks about how the pressures caused by the reality of nuclear war forced some leaders to take a different look at their orthodox communist views.”
Sentiment: Deep Dive
Trigger: Khrushchev and nuclear strategy
For: Historians and students of Cold War politics
Key quote: “By asserting that capitalism and socialism could coexist for a long time, the new leaders of the Soviet Union were rejecting Stalin's vision of another world war within 15 to 20 years of the end of World War II.”
The host mentions David Holloway's book to illustrate how the pressures of nuclear warfare influenced Soviet leadership under Khrushchev. Holloway argues that this shift in ideology was a departure from Stalin's belief in an inevitable war between capitalist and communist states.