The historiography about the Cold War:
critical reflections on the thinking of John Lewis Gaddis.
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Cold War, Historiography, Post-revisionismAbstract
The aim of this article is to critically analyze the central contributions of post-revisionist historian John Lewis Gaddis to the historiographical debate on the Cold War. The analysis proposes a comparison between the post-revisionist theses and the orthodox theses, in order to support the hypothesis that post-revisionism has become an anti-revisionist historiographic current. To this end, the text is organized into three sections. In the first one, an analysis of Gaddis's seminal criticisms of the theses he attributed to revisionism is proposed, highlighting its limitations. In the second section, a comparison is made between post-revisionism and revisionist historiography, taking Gaddis' reflections as a reference. In the third section, it is argued that the research agenda advocated by Gaddis represented the reassertion of orthodox theses, becoming, in this sense, an anti-revisionist orthodoxy.
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