Russia leaves the war / by George Frost Kennan ; with a new foreword by Frank Costigliola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005, author.

Contributor:

Costigliola, Frank, writer of foreword.

Series:

Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005. Soviet-American relations, 1917-1920.

Soviet-American relations, 1917-1920

Princeton Classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic relations. .

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1917-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (593 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Parkman PrizeFrom acclaimed diplomat and historian George Kennan, a landmark history of the crucial months in 1917–1918 that forged the pattern of Soviet-American relationsWhen the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917, American diplomats in St. Petersburg and Moscow were thrown into a bewildering situation. Should the new regime be recognized? What was its true nature? And was there any way to keep Russia fighting against Germany in the Great War? In vivid detail, George Kennan’s classic history tells the gripping story of the Americans’ furious, and ultimately failed, efforts to strike a deal to keep the Soviets in the war—and how these events set the pattern of future relations between the two emerging superpowers. In a new introduction, Kennan biographer Frank Costigliola puts the book in the context of the its cold war publication and Kennan’s life.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Foreword by Frank Costigliola

Preface

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691189475

0691189471

OCLC:

1351747597