George F. Kennan (1904–2005) was an American diplomat, political scientist and historian. He is best known for his role in shaping US foreign policy during the Cold War and, in particular, for the doctrine of containment. Kennan was Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and served as Ambassador to the USSR in 1952 and as Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961 to 1963. His books include At a Century’s Ending and An American Family.
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Memorandum for the Minister
April 26, 2001
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A Letter on Germany
December 3, 1998
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Witness to the Fall
November 16, 1995
Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of The Soviet Union by Jack F Matlock Jr.
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In Defense of Oppenheimer
June 23, 1994
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The Balkan Crisis: 1913 and 1993
July 15, 1993
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Keeping the Faith
September 24, 1992
Summer Meditations by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson
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Witness
March 1, 1990
The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe by Timothy Garton Ash
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On the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
March 1, 1990
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The History of Arnold Toynbee
June 1, 1989
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The Buried Past
October 27, 1988
Memoirs 1989) by Andrei Gromyko
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‘The Gorbachev Prospect’: An Exchange
March 17, 1988
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The Gorbachev Prospect
January 21, 1988
Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World by Mikhail Gorbachev
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In the American Mirror
November 6, 1986
The Cycles of American History
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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A New Philosophy of Defense
February 13, 1986
Making Europe Unconquerable: The Potential of Civilian-based Deterrence and Defence by Gene Sharp
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Zero Options
May 12, 1983
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On Nuclear War
January 21, 1982
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A Modest Proposal
July 16, 1981
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A Different Approach to the World: An Interview
January 20, 1977
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A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam
June 12, 1975
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Between Earth and Hell
March 21, 1974
Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Parts I and II, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Noble Man
March 22, 1973
Helmuth von Moltke: A Leader Against Hitler by Michael Balfour, by Julian Frisby
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Dead Souls
February 25, 1971
Khrushchev Remembers translated and edited by Strobe Talbott, with an Introduction, Commentary, and Notes by Edward Crankshaw
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Introducing Eugene McCarthy
April 11, 1968