George F. Kennan

In January of the year 1843 there was published in Paris, in four volumes, a book entitled La Russie en 1839. The author was a French nobleman of distinguished lineage, Astolphe Louis Léonor, Marquis de Custine. The book was an account of the impressions gained, and the refleetions inspired, by a...

Einige dieser Portraits sind in kürzerer Form schon früher einmal erschienen. Bei den hier vorgelegten handelt es sich in allen Fällen um Persönlichkeiten von allgemeinem Interesse. Mit vielen von ihnen verbindet mich seit vielen Jahren enge Freundschaft. Nach v^elchem Prinzip sie...

Introduction hy John Lukacs During the second half of the twentieth century the history and the development of the United States were dominated by the "Cold War" with Soviet Russia— more precisely, by the actuality of a political and by the potentiality of a military confrontation of these...