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So what actually happened? To avoid cluttering the article, this will get a separate entry: [[History of the Cold War]]. However, broadly speaking, the history of conflict between the West and the Soviet Union can be divided into six sections:
* 1917-1930: Starts in [[Red October]], in which the Bolsheviks seized power and waged the [[Russian Civil War]]. Western Allied forces intervened and clashed with the Bolsheviks both directly and through allies as they sought to either topple or contain the Communists while the Bolsheviks wanted to spread their Revolution Westward. Eventually ended with the Bolsheviks in control of the heartland of the Russian Empire but being stopped from progressing any further by the Western-backed Poles. Included the [[Ur Example]] of the Red Scare. Fiction in this era tends to focus upon [[Bomb
* 1931-1945: A period of calming between the two as the rise of Hitler led to some tentative contacts between the two, though both sides still engaged in espionage even during their wartime alliance. The fall of the Axis powers coupled with several high-profile scandals led to the conflict to re-emerge. Expect fiction to portray the Soviets at best as heroic but not entirely trustworthy allies and conniving and treasonous enemies-in-all-but-name at worst.
* 1946-1962: High tension between the two sides, culminating in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Fiction here has direct Soviet involvement in evil plots.
* 1962-1978: The period of détente. You are more likely to see a [[General Ripper|rogue commander]] start up a [[False
* 1978-1987: The "Second Cold War", arguably the first period with more nukes and computers. Direct [[Red Scare]] again and the home of ''[[Airwolf]]''
* 1987-1991: [[Ronald Reagan]] [[Go
See also:
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* [[Fake Russian]]
* [[Glorious Mother Russia]]
* [[The Great Politics Mess
* [[Hot Line]]
* [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You]]
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Westward (Webcomic)|Westward]]'' is set in an [[Alternate History]] where the [[Cold War]] never ended. Initially this is just an interesting part of the story's background, but eventually the implications become quite important to the plot, and personally to some of the characters.
** The continuation of the [[Cold War]] may have also led to the quicker development in space travel technology, with manned trips to Mars in the 1970s and the construction of a starship with a [[Faster
* In ''[[Jet Dream (Webcomic)|Jet Dream]]'', Cold War politics are portrayed relatively realistically, but parodied in the "teen oriented" sister title ''It's Cookie!'' Those stories depict an East-West "Cool War" to win over the world's teens in a circa-1970 world where the watchword is "Fem Is In!" The "Cool War" is mostly fought as a battle between the West's flawless-but-expensive [[Gender Bender]] process and the East's quick-and-dirty [[Easy Sex Change]] procedures.
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