Title Kennan and the Cold War : an Unauthorized Biography

Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages) Contents Lonely -- The professional -- Containment: the idea -- Containment: the policy planning staff executes -- Containment: the CIA executes -- CIA: a larger context -- Doubles -- Containment on second thought -- Embassies -- Scholar -- Presbyterian saint -- Public intellectual -- Consummation -- Ecce homo -- After Kennan Summary "With his policy of containment, US diplomat George F. Kennan (1904-2005) devised a way to resist the Soviet Union's attempt to conquer the world for Communism. That way was to go to the brink of war to prevent war. His idea was first expressed in his famous Long Telegram from Moscow on February 22, 1946.It took genius to see a wartime ally as a dangerous adversary, and to convince the American leadership to act upon it. Back in the United States, the young diplomat first acted as deputy commandant in the National War College. He then operated as director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff to restore Europe from wartime destruction. By 1950 Kennan began to reverse his thinking, believing that the military component of American policy was going too far. While his old colleagues continued to develop US power, given point by the atomic bomb, Kennan withdrew from government and began a new career as a public intellectual campaigning for a more peaceable policy in his eighteen books, and articles and talks.The breakdown of the Soviet economy in the 1980s showed that Kennan was right the second time as well. Always sympathetic to the Russian people and culture, which the later Soviet leaders appreciated, Kennan was able to welcome the new non-Communist Russia into a more peaceable relationship with the democracies that ended the Cold War. His life and works have become a national treasure."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005. SUBJECT Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005 fast Subject Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography Historians -- United States -- Biography Cold War -- Diplomatic history Ambassadors Diplomacy Diplomatic relations Historians SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098 United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140115 Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125763 Subject Soviet Union United States Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book ISBN 9781351510257 1351510258

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