 | Erik Peter Hoffmann, Frederic J. Fleron - 778 頁
...American pressure have the effect, as George Kennan hoped, of promoting tendencies in the Soviet Union "which must eventually find their outlet in either...break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power." Far from causing Soviet policy to mellow, American actions, according to Williams, stiffened the Russians... | |
 | Herman Kahn - 1985 - 256 頁
...United States could stymie Soviet aggression, and this "patient but firm and vigilant containment" would "promote tendencies which must eventually find their...break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power." * While the effectiveness of containment in tempering Soviet aggressive tendencies is debatable, the... | |
 | William Appleman Williams - 1988 - 358 頁
...Foreign Ministers in their discussion of Balkan affairs. LONDON TIMES EDITORIAL, OCTOBER 3, 1945 . . . the United States has it in its power to increase...break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power. GEORGE FROST KENNAN, FEBRUARY 1946 JULY 1947 The situation in the world today is not primarily the... | |
 | Thomas G. Paterson Professor of History University of Connecticut - 1988 - 334 頁
..."at every point," "at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points," in order to "promote tendencies which must eventually find their outlet in either the break-up or the mellowing of Soviet power."26 Kennan pointed out that Russia had serious economic and political weaknesses.... | |
 | Thomas Bodenheimer, Robert Gould - 1989 - 292 頁
...throughout the international Communist movement, by which Russian policy is largely determined.... It would be an exaggeration to say that American behavior...either the break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power.35 In Kennan 's language, the two containment goals are the mellowing vs. the breaking up of... | |
 | Nicholas X. Rizopoulos - 1990 - 302 頁
...this promise while at the same time containing Soviet encroachments, Kennan believed that we would "promote tendencies which must eventually find their...break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power." In the more than four decades since the "X" article appeared, the conflict that Kennan addressed has... | |
 | Ted Galen Carpenter - 1990 - 308 頁
...Soviet policy must operate, to force upon the Kremlin a far greater moderation and circumspection . . . and in this way to promote tendencies which must eventually find their outlet in either the break-up or the mellowing of Soviet power." 2 This was the founding idea of NATO and containment, whence it would follow... | |
 | Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin Frederick Laird, Frederic J. Fleron - 876 頁
...no compromise with an unrestructured evil empire? It should be recalled that Kennan wrote in 1947: But the United States has it in its power to increase...either the breakup or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power.2' It is not at all clear that Gorbachev's USSR is "mellowing" in systemic ways of structural... | |
 | Robert Jervis, Seweryn Bialer - 1991 - 382 頁
...argued no compromise with an unrestructured evil empire? What Kennan wrote in 1947 should be recalled: "But the United States has it in its power to increase...either the break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power."24 It is not at all clear that Gorbachev's USSR is "mellowing" in systemic ways of structural... | |
 | Richard Halworth Rovere - 366 頁
...democratic and communist worlds. The role of American policy, George Kennan suggested, was to seek out ways to "promote tendencies which must eventually find...break-up or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power." Certainly the internal contradictions of the Soviet regime were more acute than the internal contradictions... | |
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But the United States has it in its power to increase enormously the strains under which Soviet policy must operate, to force upon the Kremlin a far greater degree of moderation and circumspection than it has had to observe in recent years, and in this... 
