George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946 [antikvár]

Introduction hy John Lukacs During the second half of the twentieth century the history and the development of the United States were dominated by the "Cold War" with Soviet Russia— more precisely, by the actuality of a political and by the potentiality of a military confrontation of these two giant states, the two remaining superpowers of the globe. This involved not only the foreign and military policy of the United States, that is, the course of the American ship of state; it had great effects as well on the development of the American people, on the structure of their society and their economy, and on the tendencies and categories of their political and ideological beliefs. Some of these effects were superficial and transitory. Many of them v^ere enduring. (Consider only that the duration of the Cold War, from 1947 to 1989, corresponded to more than one-fifth of the entire history of the United States until then, and that it lasted almost three times longer than all the previous wars of the United States combined, including