Articles by Peter Crowley

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Book Review: Stephen Kotkin's 'Armageddon Averted'

January 8, 2010 - 3114 words | Opinion » Book Reviews

As the world's first real Marxist experiment, the Soviet Union, by virtue of lasting seventy odd years, proved Western intelligentsia wrong. The latter had long thought it was doomed to fail. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union disintegrated two... Read Article »

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Stephen Kotkin Armageddon Averted Soviet Union Russia Collapse Cold War Book Review History Iron Curtain

Examining U.S. Foreign Policy, Refuting American Isolationism

January 6, 2010 - 2448 words | History » Foreign Policy

From before its birth to the present, the expansion of US power has been analogous to an ever-expanding hand upon the globe. Despite some of today's historically inaccurate politicians citing a revered past of non-interventionism and isolationism, the mainstay of American... Read Article »

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Foreign Policy American U.S. Isolationism Power Expansionism American Isolationism American Expansion Isolation

Peter Crowley graduated in 2011 with a concentration in History from Salem State College in Salem, MA.