Introduction / Craig Daigle and Artemy M. Kalinovsky -- Pt. 1. The Early Cold War -- Ch. 1. Incompatible universalism: the United States, The Soviet Union, and the beginning of the Cold War / Mario Del Pero -- Ch. 2. Fear, want, and the internationalism of the early Cold War /
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