Loans and legitimacy : the evolution of Soviet-American relations, 1919-1933 / Katherine A.S. Siegel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sibley, Katherine A. S. (Katherine Amelia Siobhan), 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

United States.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1919 the Soviet government directed Ludwig Martens to open a trade bureau in New York. Before his deportation two years later, Martens had established contact with nearly one thousand American firms and conducted trade in the face of a stiff Allied embargo. His work planted the seeds for growing commercial ties between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. throughout the 1920s.Because the United States did not recognize the Soviet Union until 1933, historians have viewed the early Soviet--American relationship as an ideological stand-off. Katherine Siegel, drawing on public, private, and corporate docu

Contents:

COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGNT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. MARTENS AND THE FIRST SOVIET MISSION; 2. THE DEMISE OF THE SOVIET BUREAU; 3. DIPLOMATIC, MILITARY, AND HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVES, 1919-1923; 4. ECONOMIC FOREIGN POLICY UNDER HARDING; 5. THE SOVIET COMMERCIAL MISSIONS UNDER HARDING, COOLIDGE, AND HOOVER; ILLUSTRATIONS FOLLOW PAGE; 6. TRADE AND FOREIGN POLICY, 1923-1929; 7. AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN, THE NEP, AND THE FIRSTFIVE-YEAR PLAN; 8. SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1929-1933; 9. CONCLUSION; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P

QR; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6035-9

0-8131-6133-9

0-8131-7102-4

OCLC:

47010960