Kennan, George F.

Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin.

Boston / Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1961. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. X, 411 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small crease in page 411. Previous owner’s name in ink pen on pastedown. [An Atlantic Monthly Press Book].

Includes for example the following essays: Brest-Litovsk / The Allies in Siberia / Germany and the Founding of the Comintern / 1920 – The Year of Transition / Western Reaction to the Soviet Bid / Britain, the Soviet Target / Stalin and China / The Struggle Against Hitler and the Purges / Russia and the West as Allies / Russia and the War in Asia etc.

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. He was also one of the group of foreign policy elders known as “The Wise Men”.

In 1950, Kennan left the Department of State—except for a brief ambassadorial stint in Moscow and a longer one in Yugoslavia—and became a realist critic of U.S. foreign policy. He continued to analyze international affairs as a faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1956 until his death in 2005 at age 101.(Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Cold War · German Military History · German Politics · Russian History · Russian Military History · Russian Politics · Russian Revolution · World War 2 · World War II · World War Two
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 60280AB

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