The origins of cold war: International relations between the Soviet Union and the western world, 1917-1946

This thesis examines the relationship between the Soviet Union and the western world, more exactly with Great Britain and The United States of America through the period between 1917 (the Russian Revolution) and 1946 (Winston Churchill's speech at Fulton). I will prove that the Cold War did not start in 1946 with Winston Churchill's `Fulton Speech' but started many years ago. Using modern historical investigations, speeches of Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill from that period of time, and examining the official correspondence between the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States, I will demonstrate that ideological, political, and military conflicts that characterize the term "Cold War", already existed from the Russian Civil War (1918-1921) between the Soviet Union and the western world (Great Britain and the United States).