When the Soviet Union Entered World PoliticsThe dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the first Five-Year Plan, focusing on the problems confronting the Bolsheviks as they sought to promote national security and economic development. He demonstrates the central importance of foreign relations to the political imagination of Soviet leaders, both in their plans for industrialization and in the struggle for supremacy among Lenin's successors. Jacobson adopts a post-Cold War interpretative stance, incorporating glasnost and perestroika-era revelations. He also considers Soviet relations with both Europe and Asia from a global perspective, integrating the two modes of early Soviet foreign relations—revolution and diplomacy—into a coherent discussion. Most significantly, he synthesizes the wealth of information that became available to scholars since the 1960s. The result is a stimulating work of international history that interfaces with the sophisticated existing body of scholarship on early Soviet history. |
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... statements , as did British politicians and Crown ser- vants , never suspecting that historians would be reading them only thirty years later ? Were papers of importance intentionally burned with the advance of the Wehrmacht on Moscow ...
... statements , as did British politicians and Crown ser- vants , never suspecting that historians would be reading them only thirty years later ? Were papers of importance intentionally burned with the advance of the Wehrmacht on Moscow ...
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... statements and actions of diplomats and the contacts between the Soviet government and the governments of other countries , both the strategies of the Communist International and the high politics of the Russian / Soviet Communist Party ...
... statements and actions of diplomats and the contacts between the Soviet government and the governments of other countries , both the strategies of the Communist International and the high politics of the Russian / Soviet Communist Party ...
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... statement that was to become famous , " we said to ourselves : ' It is a question of months . ' Now we say : ' It is a question of years . ' " 12 In the context of this emergent international equilibrium the Bolsheviks took actions in ...
... statement that was to become famous , " we said to ourselves : ' It is a question of months . ' Now we say : ' It is a question of years . ' " 12 In the context of this emergent international equilibrium the Bolsheviks took actions in ...
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... statements of Lenin and the other integration- ists . By late 1921 Lenin had come to expect that commercial transactions with the capitalist powers , whether explicitly approved by the governments involved or not , would lead to a ...
... statements of Lenin and the other integration- ists . By late 1921 Lenin had come to expect that commercial transactions with the capitalist powers , whether explicitly approved by the governments involved or not , would lead to a ...
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... statements created difficulties both for the conduct of Soviet diplomacy and for the propagation of revolution . How could the governments of Europe and America feel con- fident about the reliability of diplomatic relations with Soviet ...
... statements created difficulties both for the conduct of Soviet diplomacy and for the propagation of revolution . How could the governments of Europe and America feel con- fident about the reliability of diplomatic relations with Soviet ...
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