Through the History of the Cold War
In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, asking one of the nation''s best-known diplomats what he thought of Lukacs''s own views on Kennan''s widely debated idea of containing rather than militarily confronting the Soviet Union. A month later, to Lukacs''s surprise, he received a personal reply fro...
In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, asking one of the nation''s best-known diplomats what he thought of Lukacs''s own views on Kennan''s widely debated idea of containing rather than militarily confronting the Soviet Union. A month later, to Lukacs''s surprise, he received a personal reply fro...