Siberia and the Exile System

Informationen zum Autor George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian who lived from February 16, 1904, to March 17, 2005. During the Cold War, he gained most notoriety as a supporter of the containment of Soviet expansion. In addition to writing academic histories of USSR-US ties, he gave several lectures. In addition, he belonged to the group of wise men in foreign policy known as "The Wise Men." His writings in the late 1940s served as the impetus for the US foreign strategy of limiting the USSR and the Truman Doctrine. His 1946 "Long Telegram" from Moscow and the paper "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" that followed made the case that the Soviet system was inevitably expansionist and that its influence needed to be "contained" in areas that were crucially important to US strategy. The new anti-Soviet strategy of the Truman administration was justified by these writings. Kennan was instrumental in the creation of key Cold War initiatives and organizations, most notably the Marshall Plan. Kennan started to critique the foreign policies that he had assisted in articulating not long after his ideas had become U.S. policy. Kennan started to feel optimistic about the US starting constructive talks with the Soviet leadership by the end of 1948. Klappentext An American journalist's unflinching account, published in two volumes in 1891, of Russia's brutal penal system in Siberia. Zusammenfassung The American journalist and expert on Russia George Kennan (1854–1924) went to Siberia to examine the infamous tsarist penal system there, and this vivid account was published in two volumes in 1891. In Volume 1 Kennan visits the holding prison of Tyumen and talks to political exiles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. From St Petersburg to Perm; 2. Across the Siberian frontier; 3. The flowery plains of Tobólsk; 4. The Tiumén forwarding prison; 5. A Siberian convict barge; 6. First impressions of post travel; 7. The great Kírghis steppe; 8. Our first meeting with political exiles; 9. Bridle paths of the Altái; 10. Two colonies of political exiles; 11. Exile by administrative process; 12. The Province and the City of Tomsk; 13. The Tomsk forwarding prison; 14. The life of political exiles; 15. The great Siberian road; 16. Deportation by étape....

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• Authors: George Kennan, George F. Kennan, Kennan George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9781108048224
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04822-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - European History; Cambridge Library Collection -; Siberia and the Exile System 2 Volume Set; Cambridge Library Collection - European History; Siberia and the Exile System 2 Volume Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political science & theory, Asian History, Political science and theory, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Siberia