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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.
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.
November 16, 1995 issue
Keeping the Faith
Summer Meditations
by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson
September 24, 1992 issue
Witness
The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe
by Timothy Garton Ash
March 1, 1990 issue
The Gorbachev Prospect
Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World
by Mikhail Gorbachev
January 21, 1988 issue
In the American Mirror
The Cycles of American History
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
November 6, 1986 issue
A New Philosophy of Defense
Making Europe Unconquerable: The Potential of Civilian-based Deterrence and Defence
by Gene Sharp
February 13, 1986 issue
Between Earth and Hell
Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Parts I and II,
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
March 21, 1974 issue
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