George F Kennan
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1961]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 411 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A history of Soviet-Western relations from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the end of World War II. The author examines in detail such things as the allied intervention in Russia in World War I, the Versailles Treaty, Lenin's versus Stalin's methods of advancing communism, the rise of Hitler, the German-Russian pact of 1939, and the Yalta Conference.
4) Memoirs
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1967-72]
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Desc
2 v. 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xlv, 712 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning a staggering eighty-eight years and totaling over 8,000 pages, [Kennan's] journals brim with keen political and moral insights, philosophical ruminations, poetry, and vivid descriptions. In these pages, we see Kennan rambling through 1920s Europe as a college student, despairing for capitalism in the midst of the Depression, agonizing over the dilemmas of sex and marriage, becoming enchanted and then horrified by Soviet Russia, and developing...
