title: The Moscow Embassy of George Kennan and American Diplomacy in the Cold War
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metadata.value: Raikova, Vera A.
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metadata.value: 2022-09-19T10:24:10Z
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metadata.value: 2022-09-19T10:24:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Raikova V. A. The Moscow Embassy of George Kennan and American Diplomacy in the Cold War. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 2, рp. 515–531.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2022.212
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37786
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metadata.value: This paper studies the operations of the Embassy of the United States of America in Moscow
  headed by G. F. Kennan (May — September 1952) in the context of Cold War diplomatic
  history. Based on an analysis of documents located in the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the
  Russian Federation, this study focuses on such key international issues as peaceful settlement
  of the Korean war, resolution of the German issue, and the signing of a treaty protecting fur
  seals in the Pacific basin. This article highlights the role of the American Embassy in Moscow,
  and of Ambassador Kennan in particular, in the discussion of these issues, and the nature
  of the embassy staff members’ interactions with Soviet authorities. The archival materials
  concerning the Soviet-American relations in 1952 provide clear evidence that the diplomatic
  corps faced severe difficulties under the conditions of military and political confrontation
  of the Cold War. The paper also elucidates the reasons for declaring Kennan persona non
  grata. Finally, the author considers the influence of the Moscow ambassadorship on Kennan’s
  perception of communism and the Soviet social system. He became convinced not only of
  the Soviet political system’s bureaucratic inertia and clumsiness, its excessive centralization,
  and its total focus on Stalin’s personality, but also of the extreme straightforwardness and
  uncompromising nature of American foreign policy towards the Soviet Union.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cold War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: American diplomacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: George Frost Kennan
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Korean War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stalin Note
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Convention on Conservation of North Pacific Fur Seals
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metadata.value: The Moscow Embassy of George Kennan and American Diplomacy in the Cold War
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metadata.value: Article
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