Buying the Same Horse Twice: The U.S. Embassy in Moscow, 1944-1945
Year: 2014

This thesis analyzes the US Embassy in Moscow at the end of World War II by examining the experiences and perspectives of the Embassy’s three major figures: Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, Charge d’Affaires George F. Kennan, and Major General John R. Deane. These men did not begin as staunch Slavophobes or anti-Communists. But from the failed Warsaw Uprising in August 1944 to the war’s end in May 1945, these three men began to believe that the USSR was trying to project its influence over the re