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The 1980s were certainly confused years. During the first half of the decade the Cold War was as tense as ever. War seemed a real possibility, especially in the Kremlin, where fears of an impending attack created an atmosphere of panic. Yet the second half of the decade saw the Cold War being speedily resolved and Communist regimes collapse with bewildering rapidity.
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Swift, J. (2003). Capitalism v. Communism in the 1980s. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230001183_40
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