 | Richard F. Haynes - History - 1999 - 372 pages
...maintained that "the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. . . . The Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world is something that can... | |
 | Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin Frederick Laird, Frederic J. Fleron - 876 pages
...it is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. It is important to note, however, that such a policy has nothing to do with outward histrionics: with... | |
 | Benjamin I. Page, Robert Y. Shapiro - Social Science - 2010 - 507 pages
...declared that "(t)he main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies" (Kennan 1947, p. 575) — "containment" that was soon defined chiefly in military terms. Thus the rhetoric... | |
 | Geoffrey A.H. Pearson - History - 1993 - 207 pages
...of the Policy Planning Staff in the State Department, reinforced the Truman message by calling for "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." Such a commitment seemed to imply a military blockade of the Soviet empire — an interpretation that... | |
 | Diane B. Kunz - History - 1994 - 396 pages
...Kennan, held that "the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." 1 Under its aegis the United States for the first time created a national security apparatus that embraced... | |
 | Seyom Brown - History - 1994 - 684 pages
...Soviet retreats. "The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." This policy would require "the adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly... | |
 | Donald E. Pease - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 340 pages
...recommends we not try to change the essential nature of the fluid but rather to limit its flow with "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies" (SSC, 575; my emphasis). Linking this prolonged policy to a projection of Soviet economic impotence... | |
 | Robert Hariman - Political Science - 2010 - 272 pages
...and cranny available to it in the basin of world power." Consequently, the United States must adopt a "long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies," while recognizing that this diking of a naturally expansive force "has nothing to do with outward histrionics:... | |
 | Alan Nadel - Art - 1995 - 356 pages
...recommends we not try to change the essential nature of the fluid, but rather to limit its flow with "a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies" (575; emphasis added). Linking this prolonged policy to a projection of Soviet economic impotence (578),... | |
 | Ole R. Holsti - Political Science - 1996 - 284 pages
...to prove fruitless. Kennan's (1947) diagnosis of Soviet international behavior and his prescription of a "long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies" were enormously influential in providing an intellectual framework for American policy toward Stalin's... | |
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In these circumstances it is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. 
