The Moscow Embassy of George Kennan and American Diplomacy in the Cold War

This paper studies the operations of Embassy United States America in Moscow headed by G. F. Kennan (May — September 1952) context Cold War diplomatic history. Based on an analysis documents located Archive Foreign Policy Russian Federation, this study focuses such key international issues as peaceful settlement Korean war, resolution German issue, and signing a treaty protecting fur seals Pacific basin. article highlights role American Moscow, Ambassador particular, discussion these issues, nature embassy staff members’ interactions with Soviet authorities. The archival materials concerning Soviet-American relations 1952 provide clear evidence that corps faced severe difficulties under conditions military political confrontation War. also elucidates reasons for declaring persona non grata. Finally, author considers influence ambassadorship Kennan’s perception communism social system. He became convinced not only system’s bureaucratic inertia clumsiness, its excessive centralization, total focus Stalin’s personality, but extreme straightforwardness uncompromising foreign policy towards Union.