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George F. Kennan's The Sources Of Soviet Conduct

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George F. Kennan’s article entitled, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” he provided a brief history that explains why the Soviet Union conducted foreign policy with secretiveness, suspicion and general unfriendliness and he suggested how the United States and other capitalist societies should deal with them.

Why Russia was the way it was:
1. They believed strongly in the political and moral superiority of communism.
2. They believed capitalism exploited the working class and would eventually lead to its own destruction or revolution and war.
3. The dictatorship in place was necessary to rid the Soviet Union of the last lingering seeds of capitalism.
4. However once capitalism was completely abolished from the Soviet regime
5. As the last

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