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George Kennan Tent Life In Siberia (Fiscle Part-11)

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The Russian-American Telegraph Company, Otherwise Known As The "Western Union Extension," Was Organised At New York In The Summer Of 1864. The Idea Of A Line From America To Europe, By Way Of Bering Strait, Had Existed For Many Years In The Minds Of Several Prominent Telegraphers, And Had Been Proposed By Perry Mcd. Collins, As Early As 1857, When He Made His Trip Across Northern Asia. It Was Never Seriously Considered, However, Until After The Failure Of The First Atlantic Cable, When The Expediency Of An Overland Line Between The Two Continents Began To Be Earnestly Discussed. The Plan Of Mr. Collins, Which Was Submitted To The Western Union Telegraph Company Of New York As Early As 1863, Seemed To Be The Most Practicable Of All The Projects Which Were Suggested For Intercontinental Communication. It Proposed To Unite The Telegraphic Systems Of America And Russia By A Line Through British Columbia, Russian America, And North-Eastern Siberia, Meeting The Russian Lines At The Mouth Of The Amur (Ah-Moor) River On The Asiatic Coast, And Forming One Continuous Girdle Of Wire Nearly Round The Globe. [more]

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George Kennan Tent Life In Siberia

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George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Soviet Union and the Western powers. He was also a core member of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men". In the late 1940s, his writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union, thrusting him into a lifelong role as a leading authority on the Cold War. His "Long Telegram"[1] from Moscow in 1946 and the subsequent 1947 article "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" argued that the Soviet regime was inherently expansionist and that its influence had to be "contained" in areas of vital strategic importance to the United States. These texts quickly emerged as foundation texts of the Cold War, expressing the Truman administration's new anti-Soviet Union policy. Kennan also played a leading role in the development of definitive Cold War programs and institutions, notably the Marshall Plan. [more]

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George Kennan Tent Life In Siberia

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George Kennan (February 16, 1845 – 1924) was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka [more]

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George Kennan Tent Life In Siberia

A New Account Of An Old Undertaking

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George Kennan (February 16, 1845 – 1924) was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of the Russian Empire. He was a cousin twice removed of diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, with whom he shared his birthday.George Kennan was born in Norwalk, Ohio, and was keenly interested in travel from an early age. However, family finances dictated that he began work at the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company telegraph office at age twelve. [more]

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William Murray Graydon Exiled to Siberia

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It was November in Paris. The proverbial gloominess, however, was entirely lacking in the estimation of Colonel Hercules Hoffman, [more]

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OLIVER GEORGE READY THROUGH SIBERIA AND MANCHURIA BY RAIL

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This short account of my journey from London to Shanghai by way of the Siberian Railway was at [more]

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Oliver George Ready Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail

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I left Charing Cross on the 15th October, 1903, by the 10 a.m. boat-train for Dover. As we [more]

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George Alfred Henty A Story of Escape from Siberia

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George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent.[1][2] [more]

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Oliver George Ready Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail

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I left Charing Cross on the 15th October, 1903, by the 10 a.m. boat-train for Dover. As we glided on I mentally said good-bye to familiar scenes, for I was outward bound, to put in another five years' service under the dragon flag. At Dover we went aboard the Belgian rapide "Ville de Douvres" and in ten minutes were streaming at twenty miles an hour through the shipping on our way across Channel. [more]

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G. A. Henty Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia

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George Alfred Henty was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical [more]

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