Title: Through the history of the Cold War : the correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs /
Authors: Kennan, George F. 1904-2005; Lukacs, John, 1924-2019
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Kennan, George F. Correspondence.; Lukacs, John, Correspondence.; Cold War Sources; United States Foreign relations Sources.; United States Foreign relations Soviet Union Sources.; Soviet Union Foreign relations United States Sources.
Abstract: " ... The letters in this volume reveal new dimensions in George Kennan's thinking about America and its future and illuminate the political -and spiritual- philosophies that both authors shared as they wrote about a world transformed by war and the clash of ideologies that defined the twentieth century"--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction -- The Cold War begins: containment or liberation letters, 1952-1954 -- The Cold War at its peak : the Soviet Union redux letters, 1954-1964 -- How history should be written letters, 1964-1983 -- The evil empire and the end of the Cold War letters, 1983-1988 -- The end of an age: American hegemony letters, 1988-2004.