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George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States.
George F. Kennan was an American diplomat and historian best known for his successful advocacy of a “containment policy” to oppose Soviet expansionism following World War II. Upon graduation from Princeton in 1925, Kennan entered the foreign service. He was sent overseas immediately and spent.
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Mar 18, 2005 · George F. Kennan, the American diplomat who did more than any other envoy of his generation to shape United States policy during the cold war, died on Thursday night in Princeton, N.J. He was...
George F. Kennan, Princeton ’25, is former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and to Yugoslavia. Now at the Institute for Advanced Study, he is also Visiting Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton. His latest books is “On Dealing with the Communist World,” Harper and Row, 1964.
George Kennan (1904-2005) was an American diplomat who served in Europe and the Soviet Union during and after World War II. Kennan’s advice to Washington shaped United States foreign policy in the early Cold War. Kennan was born in Milwaukee, the son of a tax lawyer.
Mar 1, 2007 · Remembering George F. Kennan. The late George F. Kennan formulated the tenets that would guide U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for a half-century. A Kennan Institute conference in February commemorated the ideas and ideals of this public intellectual who was both an extraordinary diplomat and scholar. The name George F. Kennan will forever ...
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George Frost Kennan was, and still remains, a very controversial and legendary figure in American diplomatic history. As a historian, political scientist, and diplomat, Kennan focused most of his career on Russian culture and history.
