About George F. Kennan

George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men".

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George F. Kennan

American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005)

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diplomat, historian, geopolitical analyst, political scientist

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United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, ambassador

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United States

Born

February 16, 1904

Died

March 17, 2005

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