In July 1947, the quarterly Foreign Affairs published an anonymous article entitled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," which offered what would soon become the basis for U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. The author, soon revealed to be George Kennan, opposed continuing appeasement of the Soviets and promoted firm opposition to further expansion of communist power. The Sources of Soviet Conduct George Kennan, senior State Department official July 1947 The political personality of Soviet power as we know it today is the product of ideology and circumstances: ideology inherited by the present Soviet leaders from the movement in which they had their political origin, and circumstances of power which they now have exercised for nearly th
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