ABSTRACT
Having considered the structure of the inheritance, we turn to the great conjuncture of conception. Certainly, we should not carry our basic metaphor too far, and we would not extract much enlightenment from speculating about parentage, even though serious scholars have discussed the femininity of Russia and the masculinity of the USA.1 In any case, in Chapter 1 we have given a considerable amount of attention to the manner in which Europe made a contribution to the political, economic and cultural development of both the USA and Russia. And so, we would be better off noting simply that it was during the period 1898-1921 that the ideological foundations of superpower, Wilsonism and Leninism, were laid against a background of war and revolution.
