ABSTRACT
“Containment” was the name of the foreign policy doctrine adopted by the United States in the post-World War II period to counter Soviet moves which the United States regarded as hostile and threatening to its security interests. The doctrine’s consequence was the conception and implementation, largely through military means, of US foreign policies which Kennan considers to have been both faulty and in some respects threatening to the peace of the world. The Soviet Union emerged from the war terribly weakened and shattered in the essential fabrics of its society. Communism seeks the achievement of such goals on behalf of individuals through the improvement of the collective and collective institutions. The equation between expansionism and the totalitarian Soviet Union, and thence with communism in the abstract, was easy for the insufficiently tutored American masses to accomplish immediately after the war.
