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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... strategies for some time to come ? What is certain is that research at each stage has facilitated that which followed . Earlier research has raised questions to which subsequent projects have responded , and it has served as a ...
... strategies for some time to come ? What is certain is that research at each stage has facilitated that which followed . Earlier research has raised questions to which subsequent projects have responded , and it has served as a ...
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... strategies of the Communist International and the high politics of the Russian / Soviet Communist Party are taken as ... strategy of socialist industrialization . In turn , the choice between integrationist and autarchic economic foreign ...
... strategies of the Communist International and the high politics of the Russian / Soviet Communist Party are taken as ... strategy of socialist industrialization . In turn , the choice between integrationist and autarchic economic foreign ...
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... strategy of temporary retreat " to the assembled Communists of Europe , America , and Asia at the Third Comintern Con- gress in June - July . " At that time , in 1919 , " he said in a statement that was to become famous , " we said to ...
... strategy of temporary retreat " to the assembled Communists of Europe , America , and Asia at the Third Comintern Con- gress in June - July . " At that time , in 1919 , " he said in a statement that was to become famous , " we said to ...
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... strategy from the time the Bolsheviks seized power , that , beginning at that moment , he made a series of deliberate compromises in foreign affairs by which he sacrificed international socialist revolution for the survival of the ...
... strategy from the time the Bolsheviks seized power , that , beginning at that moment , he made a series of deliberate compromises in foreign affairs by which he sacrificed international socialist revolution for the survival of the ...
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... strategy of economic recovery and reconstruction propounded by Lenin in 1921 was premised , was partial . The projected integration of Russia into the global economy was limited by the nationalization of foreign trade decreed in April ...
... strategy of economic recovery and reconstruction propounded by Lenin in 1921 was premised , was partial . The projected integration of Russia into the global economy was limited by the nationalization of foreign trade decreed in April ...
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