United States of America. Confrontation and containment

The American revolution and war for independence were favorably met by all layers of Russian society, from Empress Catherine Great to the most liberal representatives of the nobility. In the XIX century, the Russian Empire and the United States were permanent allies. At the same time, the sale of Alaska became the result not so much pressure of American industrialists, how much evil intent of a number of Russian dignitaries. Why did Russia and the United States become rivals and enemies? What is the essence of the conflict of two superpowers? How did trade relations between our countries develop in the 20th century? Is the fact that US capitalists through Amtorg re-equipped the Red Army? Why were the USA and the USSR in the fall of 1945 on the verge of armed conflict in the Far East? Where in 1945-1991 The border between & quot, Cold & QUOT, and the full-scale war between the USSR and the USA? Was the military confrontation on land, at sea, in the air and in outer space after the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Covenant? About this and a lot of other reader finds out the historian A. B.shireda