The ambassadors and America's Soviet policy / David Mayers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayers, David, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ambassadors--United States--History--20th century.

Ambassadors.

Ambassadors--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

United States.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 335 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mayers analyses the entire history of American foreign relations with Russia and then the Soviet Union, using the drama of the lives of the men and women who worked at the American embassy in Moscow to tell his story. Particular attention is paid to the critical events of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Contents; United States Chiefs of Mission in St. Petersburg and Moscow; Introduction; I: Before Moscow; 1. St. Petersburg and the U.S. Diplomatic Tradition; 2. From Comity to Estrangement; 3. War and Revolution; II: In Stalin's Time; 4. Preparing for Moscow; 5. Purges and the Failure of Collective Security; 6. Fragile Coalition; 7. Neither War Nor Peace; III: Great Power Rivalry; 8. After Stalin; 9. Controlled Rivalry; 10. Collapse and the Art of Diplomacy; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Bibliography: p307-322. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-322) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773275-5

1-280-52556-8

0-19-536179-2

1-4294-1091-4

OCLC:

466428036