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4 days ago · From the lonely and motherless childhood in provincial Wisconsin to the even more lonely and now alienated college student at elite Princeton University, through to the young and still alienated American diplomat in Riga, Berlin and finally Moscow in the late 1920s and early to mid-1930s, holding what would appear in retrospect as a distinctly ‘...
1 day ago · John F. Kennedy's foreign policy was dominated by American confrontations with the Soviet Union, manifested by proxy contests. Like Truman and Eisenhower, Kennedy supported containment to stop the spread of Communism.
2 days ago · In February 1946, George F. Kennan laid out the doctrine of containment, which called for the United States to resist the spread of Communism. Wallace feared that confrontational policies toward the Soviet Union would eventually lead to war, and urged Truman to "allay any reasonable Russian grounds for fear, suspicion, and distrust". [123]
4 days ago · (Original Caption) George F. Kennan, second secretary at the United States legation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, is pictured aboard the S.S. Washington just before he sailed for his post in the troubled land today. Mrs. Kennan and their two children sailed with him. Bettmann Bettmann. see more.
3 days ago · The players in the Negro Leagues are mostly gone and nothing can make up for what was done to them. But Major League Baseball has finally given them statistically meaningful justice.
5 days ago · The restoration of a Great Russian Empire in Europe by a megalomaniac successor to Russian tsars must be prevented by all means: Neo-imperial Russia must be “contained”! (in the spirit of George F. Kennan).
3 days ago · She discusses her research on Russia’s broad crackdown on LGBTQ rights under Putin and highlights her project, “New Queer Dissidents: Politics and Geopolitics of post-Soviet LGBTQ Migration to the United States.”.
