Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. Volume I, Russia Leaves the War / George Frost Kennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennan, George Frost, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1956.

Summary:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize, this absorbing volume explores the complexities of the Soviet-American relationship between the November Revolution of 1917 and Russia's final departure in March 1918 from the ranks of the warring powers.These four months, which witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia's departure from the warring powers, set the stage for future relations between the two emerging superpowers. Volume 2 of Soviet American Relations, entitled The Decision to Intervene (Princeton, 1958), explored U.S. intervention in northern Russia and Siberia between 1918 and 1920.The distinguished scholar and public servant George F. Kennan opens the way to an understanding not only of these events but of the subsequent pattern of Soviet-American relations and the complex process of international diplomacy generally. Kennan became the U.S. government's key analyst of the Soviet Union after a two-year stint in the Foreign Service there (1944-1946), which had been preceded by service in the American embassy in Moscow before World War II. His "long telegram" to his superiors at the State Department, written in 1946 and published a year later in revised form in Foreign Affairs as the famous "X" article, was perhaps the most influential statement in the early years of the Cold War. After leaving the Foreign Service, Kennan joined the faculty at the School for Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he wrote Russia Leaves the War and subsequent books.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

PROLOGUE

I. THE IMMEDIATE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

II. PERSONALITIES

III. FIRST REACTIONS

IV. THE SOVIET APPROACH TO AN ARMISTICE

V. FIRST PROBLEMS OF "CONTACT" WITH THE SOVIET AUTHORITIES

VI. ALLIED DELIBERATIONS IN PARIS

VII. WILSON AND THE WAR AIMS

VIII. LANSING AND THE RECOGNITION PROBLEM

IX. THE PROBLEM OF ANTI-BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA

X. THE KALPASHNIKOV AFFAIR

XI. THE FIRST BREST-LITOVSK CRISIS

XII. THE FOURTEEN POINTS

XIII. SIBERIA-THE BACKGROUND

XIV. SIBERIA-THE FIRST EXCHANGES

XV. JAPAN ASKS FOR A FREE HAND

XVI. THE DIAMANDI INCIDENT

XVII. THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

XVIII. BREST-LITOVSK AND THE AMERICANS

XIX. WASHINGTON AND THE PROBLEM OF "CONTACTS"

XX. COMPLICATIONS IN PETROGRAD

XXI. THE BREAKUP IN PETROGRAD

XXII. THE SISSON PAPERS

XXIII. SIBERIA AND THE FINAL BREST-LITOVSK CRISIS

XXIV. ROBINS AND RATIFICATION

APPENDIX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781400843824

1400843820

OCLC:

1262307511