Left Behind by the Cold War's End; Historians Debate the Defeat of Socialism From: The Washington Post | Date: June 12, 1990| Author: | Copyright (null) The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

It was one of those moments that demonstrate decisively how much the world has changed-and how the end of the Cold War is challenging world views right and left.

The moment came Sunday afternoon, in the midst of a series of glowing tributes to William Appleman Williams, the late historian who pioneered a revisionist and highly critical view of the United States' role in the world.

Williams, who died in March and would have turned 69 today, was the intellectual inspiration of a generation of New Left historians. He battled all his life against the prevailing view that "containment" of ...

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