Volume 48, Number 7 · April 26, 2001

Memorandum for the Minister

By George F. Kennan

The document that follows is an analysis of the Soviet Union written in August 1932 by George F. Kennan, then a twenty-eight-year-old member of the Foreign Service, stationed in Riga, Latvia. Mr. Kennan has supplied the background to the document in the following note written for The New York Review.



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