George Kennan and the Soviet Union, 1933–1938
Perceptions of a Young Diplomat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12049647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Mayers (University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 525-549 |
| Publication date | 1983-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0707-5332 • E-ISSN: 1949-6540 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07075332.1983.9640327 |
| OpenAlex | W1981634003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
formal diplomatic relations. George Kennan, not yet thirty, was invited to join the first official delegation to represent US interests in Moscow. This tour in the Soviet Union, which coincided with the great purges and was dominated by them, was formative for Kennan and crucial to the development of his early views about the Soviet Union, the nature of Russian-US relations, and US diplomacy. When later the Cold War began to erupt, these views of Kennan's found expression in his pronouncements and recommendations for US foreign policy. In fact, the underlying assumptions of Kennan's formulation of containment the incompatability of Soviet and US political commitments, the divergent nature of their security interests, the importance of patience and steady purpose in dealing with the Russianscan be traced to the 1930s
Delegation · Diplomacy · Foreign policy · George (robot · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |