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Introduction: Casting a New Look at the Origins of the Cold War,e countries of Eastern Europe following the Second World War was a primary cause of the breakdown of their wartime alliance and the onset of the Cold War. It was the Soviet suppression of democracy in Eastern Europe and the absorption of the Eastern European states into a Soviet-dominated bloc that

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,Great Power Diplomacy, Resistance and Popular Front in Bulgaria (June 1941–September 1944), within an inch of destroying the communist state, and yet it ultimately provided Stalin with opportunities he could have scarcely imagined before 1941. In the war against Germany, the Soviet Union found itself in an alliance with the world’s most powerful capitalist states, whilst the march of its

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,The Search for Common Ground (September 1945–March 1946), level, and between the political parties in Bulgaria. Internationally, the Soviet Union and the Western powers clashed intransigently at the London conference in September–October 1945, achieved a compromise in Moscow a few months later, only to find their carefully crafted formulations falling apa

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,The Hardening of Battle Lines (April–October 1946),f open Western involvement in Bulgaria’s domestic politics. The conclusion of peace treaties would mean that the United States and Britain would lose the opportunities for intervention provided by the Allied Control Commission (ACC). Whilst no longer prepared to involve themselves actively in Bulgar

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,Towards Confrontation (October 1946–September 1947),en East and West. On the international level, the Western powers began to withdraw from Eastern Europe and to focus their attention on preventing further Soviet expansion through a policy of ‘containment’. This meant that in spite of the desperate appeals from their representatives in Bulgaria, they

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,The End of National Communism (September 1947–December 1948),untry firmly in the Soviet zone of influence. The political supremacy achieved by the BWP marked the end of hopes for a democratic road to socialism. A number of questions, however, remained to be answered. Internationally, it was still not clear whether the Soviet zone of influence meant an allianc

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Conclusion: Reinterpreting the Origins of the Cold War,nd communism and of the inevitability of the Cold War between the Western democratic powers and the Soviet Union. This work analyses a period in which these assumptions appeared not to hold. In 1941–47, there existed a real, if circumscribed, positive engagement between communists and democratic par