Russia and the West: Under Lenin and Stalin

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1961. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. near fine: mild toning to endpapers, else clean tight and square./very good: slight fade to spine, age wear. NOT clipped.. 8vo 411pp. from front flap: "This is the first detached and authoritative American attempt to review Soviet-Western relations in historical perspective. Its uniquely qualified author, a diplomat and historian who represented this country as our Ambassador to the Soviet Union, George F. Kennan believes like Thucydides that the history of the past is our best source of guidance for the present. Mr. Kennan's narrative takes the reader through three decades of the the most profound violence and change, tracing diplomatic relations between the Western powers and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the end of World War II." #01148.