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George Kennan

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Kennan, George 

Born Feb. 16, 1845, in Norwalk, Ohio, USA; died May 10, 1924. American journalist.

Kennan made frequent trips to Russia. In 1885–86 he inspected the convict prisons and places where Russian revolutionaries were exiled in Siberia. In a two-volume work (Siberia and the Exile System, 1891; in Russian, Siberia and Exile, 1906) and lectures delivered in the USA and Great Britain he gave a true description of the intolerable conditions in which political exiles lived. His book was translated into all the European languages and made a great impression on American and European public opinion. Kennan hailed the overthrow of the Russian autocracy and spoke out against the armed intervention in Soviet Russia.
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50) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE UNITED STATES WAGED THE COLD WAR for 40 years, and for 40 years George Kennan and Paul Nitze were perennial players in the struggle--from its beginning, which Kennan catalyzed, to its end.
Friends in disagreement by Julian, Liam / The American Spectator
George Kennan "The greatest danger of war seems to me not to be in the deliberate actions of wicked men, but in the inability of harassed men to manage events that have run away with them.
Thoughts on war by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
The staff, particularly the Policy Planning Staff in the State Department with men like George Kennan and Paul Nitze, had great influence over postwar policy.
The Shaping of Containment: Harry S. Truman, the National Security ... by Garrison, Jean A. / Presidential Studies Quarterly
 
 
 
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