George F. Kennan

George Kennan
George Kennan by David Levine

George F. Kennan, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, was Ambassador to the USSR in 1952, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His most recent books are At a Century's Ending and An American Family. (April 2001)

From the Review

April 26, 2001: Memorandum for the Minister*

December 3, 1998: A Letter on Germany (letter)

November 16, 1995: Witness to the Fall*

Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of The Soviet Union by Jack F Matlock Jr.

June 23, 1994: In Defense of Oppenheimer*

July 15, 1993: The Balkan Crisis: 1913 and 1993*

September 24, 1992: Keeping the Faith*

Summer Meditations by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson

March 1, 1990: Witness*

The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe by Timothy Garton Ash

March 1, 1990: On the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe*

June 1, 1989: The History of Arnold Toynbee*

October 27, 1988: The Buried Past*

Memoirs 1989) by Andrei Gromyko

March 17, 1988: 'The Gorbachev Prospect': An Exchange

January 21, 1988: The Gorbachev Prospect*

Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World by Mikhail Gorbachev

November 6, 1986: In the American Mirror*

The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

February 13, 1986: A New Philosophy of Defense*

Making Europe Unconquerable: The Potential of Civilian-based Deterrence and Defence by Gene Sharp

May 12, 1983: Zero Options*

January 21, 1982: On Nuclear War*

July 16, 1981: A Modest Proposal*

January 20, 1977: A Different Approach to the World: An Interview*

June 12, 1975: A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam

March 21, 1974: Between Earth and Hell*

Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Parts I and II, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

March 22, 1973: Noble Man*

Helmuth von Moltke: A Leader Against Hitler by Michael Balfour, by Julian Frisby

February 25, 1971: Dead Souls*

Khrushchev Remembers translated and edited by Strobe Talbott, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Notes by Edward Crankshaw

April 11, 1968: Introducing Eugene McCarthy*