TY - BOOK AU - Kennan,George Frost TI - Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Volume I: Russia Leaves the War SN - 9781400843824 AV - E183.8.R9 K4 1989eb U1 - 327.47073 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union KW - bisacsh KW - Adams, John Quincy KW - Advisory Commission of Railway Experts KW - Amur Expedition KW - Archangel, map KW - Associated Press KW - Baltic States KW - Belgium KW - Bryant, Louise KW - Bykov KW - Carter, Allen KW - Caucasus KW - Changchun KW - Crane, Richard KW - Decree on Peace KW - Don Cossack region KW - Dvinsk KW - Estonia KW - Foch, Marshal Ferdinand KW - Gatchina KW - Gibson KW - Hagedorn, Hermann KW - Hard, William KW - Hucher, General KW - Imbrie, American Vice Consul KW - Inter-Allied Conferences, Paris KW - Irkutsk KW - Jenkins, Douglas, American Consul KW - Karakhan, Leo KW - Kharkov, map KW - Krasnoyarsk KW - Kurland KW - Larson, Cedric KW - Lippmann, Walter KW - Lithuania KW - Manikovski, General KW - Masaryk, Thomas KW - Miller, David Hunter KW - Nagasaki KW - Narva KW - New York Evening Post KW - Novoye Vremye KW - Novy Mir KW - Omsk KW - Outlook, The KW - Palestine KW - Persia KW - Platten, Fritz KW - Poland KW - Pouren KW - Pri-Amur KW - Rudewitz N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843824?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400843824 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400843824.jpg ER -