Russia Leaves the War / / George Frost Kennan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Kennan, George Frost,
• MitwirkendeR: Costigliola, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (592 p.) :; 20 b/w illus. 4 maps.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- 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