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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about, through a combination of diplomacy, economic assistance and military alliances, to create an international environment that would "contain" the Soviet empire within its own boundaries, forcing the Marxist-Leninist-Stali nist system to stew in its own poisonous juices. The author of that strategy, George Kennan, believed Soviet Communism "bears within it the seeds of its own decay." Containment, he wrote in 1947, could eventually lead to "the gradual mellowing of Soviet power." But until then, he stressed, "there can be no appeal to common purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Policy: Beyond Containment | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...Afghanistan may turn out to be part of something much more welcome. It may mark the beginning of the end of Soviet imperialist outreach. And it may have come about not just because of American counterpressure but also because of ferment within the Soviet power structure itself. In short, Kennan's original prediction of the eventual "mellowing" of Soviet power may finally be coming true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Policy: Beyond Containment | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...West were quick to denounce the invasion as a first step toward the seizure of the oil fields and warm-water ports of the Persian Gulf, ) and as part of a continuing overall Soviet design for the conquest of the world. More moderate experts, like Diplomat and Historian George Kennan, the father of the doctrine that the U.S. and its allies must "contain" Soviet expansionism around the globe, had another explanation. They believed that Leonid Brezhnev and the other Kremlin gerontocrats were seeking a buffer zone against Islamic ferment in Iran, much as Joseph Stalin had erected the Iron Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West No More Mr. Tough Guy? | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...these cases, the Soviets want to play both sides against the middle -- and against the U.S. if they can get away with it -- but apparently not at the cost of greatly increased regional tensions, much less global ones. Armacost recalls that George Kennan, in formulating the concept of containment four decades ago, predicted that over time the Soviet Union would pay more attention to reform at home and consolidation of its position abroad than to expansionism and adventurism. Concludes Armacost: "To some degree, that's what's at work here." And if that is the case, then Gorbachev represents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West No More Mr. Tough Guy? | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

American analysts from Kennan onward have stressed their own view of the connection: the Kremlin's totalitarian domestic system, they argue, is a primary cause of its expansionist foreign policy. In order to consolidate and protect its power at home, the ruling elite finds it useful to create a hostile international environment. Richard Pipes, a history professor at Harvard University and hard-line Soviet expert who served in the Reagan Administration, is a noted proponent of this view. Says he: "Aggressiveness is embedded in a system where there is a dictatorial party that can justify its power only by pretending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Cold War Fade Away? | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

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