The American diplomat's reflections of his years of government service provide insight into four decades of U.S. policy

Memoirs, 1925-1950

Biographies & Memoirs

Kennan, George Frost

Leaders & Notable People

Hutchinson

American diplomacy, 1900-1950 (Charles R. Walgreen Foundation lectures)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

University of Chicago Press

The purpose of this treatise is to give a brief account of Soviet foreign policy from the moment of the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 to the involvement of the Soviet Union in the Second World War, in June, 1941.

Soviet Foreign Policy: 1917-1941

History

Russia

Praeger

1961 state First Edition Little Brown and Co. - An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Hardcover with dust jacket.

Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin

Little,Brown & Co

The author discusses his insights on the effect that the individual's quest for power has on governments and why America must first get its own house in order before becoming a beacon to others

Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995

The Pultizer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Around the Cragged Hill reflects on the political events and policies of latter part of the twentieth century, discussing the Cold War, recent changes in the former Soviet Union, and their implications.

Americas

In an attempt to discover some of the underlying origins of World War I, the eminent diplomat and writer George Kennan focuses on a small sector of offstage events to show how they affected the drama at large long before the war even began. In the introduction to his book George Kennan tells us, "I came to see World War I . . . as the great seminal catastrophe of this century-the event which . . . lay at the heart of the failure and decline of this Western civilization" But, he asks, who could help being struck by the contrast between this apocalyptic result and the "delirious euphoria" of the crowds on the streets of Europe at the outbreak of war in 1914! "Were we not" he suggests, "in the face of some monstrous miscalculation-some pervasive failure to read correctly the outward indicators of one's own situation" It is from this perspective that Mr. Kennan launches a "micro-history" of the Franco-Russian relationship as far back as the 1870s in an effort to determine the motives that led people "to wander so blindly" into the horrors of the First World War.

The Decline of Bismarck's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875-1890

Europe

Princeton University Press

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize, this absorbing volume explores the complexities of the Soviet-American relationship between the November Revolution of 1917 and Russia's final departure in March 1918 from the ranks of the warring powers. These four months, which witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia's departure from the warring powers, set the stage for future relations between the two emerging superpowers. Volume 2 of Soviet American Relations, entitled The Decision to Intervene (Princeton, 1958), explored U.S. intervention in northern Russia and Siberia between 1918 and 1920. The distinguished scholar and public servant George F. Kennan opens the way to an understanding not only of these events but of the subsequent pattern of Soviet-American relations and the complex process of international diplomacy generally. Kennan became the U.S. government's key analyst of the Soviet Union after a two-year stint in the Foreign Service there (1944-1946), which had been preceded by service in the American embassy in Moscow before World War II. His "long telegram" to his superiors at the State Department, written in 1946 and published a year later in revised form in Foreign Affairs as the famous "X" article, was perhaps the most influential statement in the early years of the Cold War. After leaving the Foreign Service, Kennan joined the faculty at the School for Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he wrote Russia Leaves the War and subsequent books.

Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol. I

In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily memorable storythe arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian hostility, the uprising of Czechoslovak troops in central Siberia which threatened to overturn the Bolsheviks, the acquisitive ambitions of the Japanese in Manchuria, and finally the decision by President Wilson to intervene with American troops. Of this period Kennan writes, "Never, surely, in the history of American diplomacy, has so much been paid for so little"

The Decision to Intervene: Soviet-American Relations 1917-1920, Vol. 2

The Description for this book, Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. Two Volume Set, will be forthcoming.

Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. Two Volume Set

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