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Is the Cold War Over?

Ninth Annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture

Annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture Series (1981-2006)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

May 12, 1989

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Is the Cold War Over?

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Pulitzer prize-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger analyzes the failure of the Soviet experiment, something no historian had predicted. "The internal contradictions of communism proved far more destructive than those internal contradictions that Marx predicted would infallibly overthrow capitalism."

Notably, Schlesinger delivered these remarks just before the Cold War was officially declared at an end.

Annual Morgenthau Memorial Lectures

Named for famed international relations scholar Hans Morgenthau, the annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture series is the longest-running public education initiative of the Carnegie Council, showcasing today's most distinguished thinkers on ethics and international affairs.

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