Representative appearances

• Historian Niall Ferguson on the Challenges to America’s Global Dominance

  The Marshall Plan was just part of a huge reconstruction program that the United States undertook. Niall Ferguson: The other thing that happened early on was that it became clear that the Soviet Union did not want to participate in an American led global reconstruction, and wanted instead to have its own sphere of influence, hermetically sealed and run on the basis of the Soviet version of MarXism-Leninism. And so the United States played the second role, which was to defend parts of the world that felt threatened by Soviet aggression, particularly central and Western Europe, but also many parts of Asia, not to mention Latin America.

• The Russian Revolution: An In-Depth Guide - Antony Beevor

  The ideology motivating the Bolsheviks and its modern parallels in tech and social division.

• Historian Niall Ferguson: China's Strengths Are Exaggerated

  The core ideology discussed as being central to Xi Jinping's governance.