From the history of the Russian emigrant journalism of the mid-twentieth century: George Kennan and «The new review»

Abstract

The article covers the history of support lent by US intelligence agencies to Russian émigré organizations and enterprises in the beginning of the 1950s. In particular, it describes the role of George F. Kennan in organizing the support for Chekhov Publishing House of the East European Fund and «The New Review». Using the ideas, which were articulated by George Kennan in an article published in «The New Review», it shows the concept of cooperation with Russian émigré community applied by the US government. The author concludes that the only mean of affecting the Soviet political regime chosen by the US government under the policy of “Containment” conditions was an ideological struggle, in which the key role was given to Russian post-revolutionary émigrés in the USA.