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Russia Leaves The War : Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 / by George F. Kennan ; with a new foreword by Frank Costigliola.

Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005 (author.). Costigliola, Frank, 1946- (author of foreword.).

Summary:

From acclaimed diplomat and historian George Kennan, a landmark history of the crucial months in 1917–1918 that forged the pattern of Soviet-American relations

Record details

ISBN: 9780691166100
ISBN: 9780691189475
Physical Description: xxvii, 544 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm,
Edition: First Princeton Classics paperback edition.
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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 constitutent 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.