The Cold War started from the end of World War Two until 1991. It was a rivalry between the two super power states, USSR, and US, and this war was based on the spread of two different ideologies to the world, Capitalism and Communism. Ideology is a set of ideas and beliefs, which form the basis of an economic or political system. Therefore, from economic and political system, we can see the differences of ideology between the West and the USSR.
Both sides had very different views on economic problems. From the economic stand point, USSR believed that capitalism was why the society divided into several different classes, thus it believed that all the business, factories and land should be nationalized in order to overcome the inequality between the rich factory owners and the poorer working class. …
