George F. Kennan

George F. Kennan

George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men." During the late 1940s, his writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of containing the USSR. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George F. Kennan has received more than 1,554,762 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). George F. Kennan is the 22nd most popular diplomat (down from 21st in 2019), the 822nd most popular biography from United States (up from 911th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Diplomat.

George F. Kennan is most famous for his work as a diplomat and historian. He was a leading architect of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which helped to stabilize Western Europe after World War II. He is also known for his "Long Telegram" and "X Article," which laid out the rationale for containment of the Soviet Union.