Russia Leaves the War. Vol. 1 of Soviet-American Relations /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations > 1913-1921.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • The immediate historical background
  • Personalities
  • First reactions
  • The Soviet approach to an armistice
  • First problems of "contact" with the Soviet authorities
  • Allied deliberations in Paris
  • Wilson and the war aims
  • Lansing and the recognition problem
  • The problem of anti-Bolshevik Russia
  • The Kalpashnikov affair
  • The first Brest-Litovsk crisis
  • The fourteen points
  • Siberia--the background
  • Siberia--the first exchanges
  • Japan asks for a free hand
  • The Diamandi incident
  • The constituent assembly
  • Brest-Litovsk and the Americans
  • Washington and the problem of "contacts"
  • Complications in Petrograd
  • The breakup in Petrograd
  • The Sisson papers
  • Siberia and the final Brest-Litovsk crisis
  • Robins and ratification
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.

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