Princeton Classics
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Princeton Classics

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Princeton Classics

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Parkman Prize 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 When 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 foreword, Kennan biographer Frank Costigliola puts the book in the context of its Cold War publication and Kennan's life.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780691189475
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Foreword by Frank Costigliola
  8. Preface
  9. Prologue
  10. I. The Immediate Historical Background
  11. II. Personalities
  12. III. First Reactions
  13. IV. The Soviet Approach to an Armistice
  14. V. First Problems of “Contact” with the Soviet Authorities
  15. VI. Allied Deliberations in Paris
  16. VII. Wilson and the War Aims
  17. VIII. Lansing and the Recognition Problem
  18. IX. The Problem of Anti-Bolshevik Russia
  19. X. The Kalpashnikov Affair
  20. XI. The First Brest-Litovsk Crisis
  21. XII. The Fourteen Points
  22. XIII. Siberia—The Background
  23. XIV. Siberia—The First Exchanges
  24. XV. Japan Asks for a Free Hand
  25. XVI. The Diamandi Incident
  26. XVII. The Constituent Assembly
  27. XVIII. Brest-Litovsk and the Americans
  28. XIX. Washington and the Problem of “Contacts”
  29. XX. Complications in Petrograd
  30. XXI. The Breakup in Petrograd
  31. XXII. The Sisson Papers
  32. XXIII. Siberia and the Final Brest-Litovsk Crisis
  33. XXIV. Robins and Ratification
  34. Appendix
  35. Acknowledgments
  36. Selected Bibliography
  37. Index