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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... struggle among them to succeed Lenin in the leadership of the party and the state . The task of international history , as I have suggested elsewhere , is to combine an expanded conception of the politics and economics of interna ...
... struggle among them to succeed Lenin in the leadership of the party and the state . The task of international history , as I have suggested elsewhere , is to combine an expanded conception of the politics and economics of interna ...
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... struggle . The crisis which resulted in " the great turn " in Soviet history toward the administrative - command econ- omy and the advent of Stalinism had its inception in the diplomatic crisis and war scare of 1927. No full scheme of ...
... struggle . The crisis which resulted in " the great turn " in Soviet history toward the administrative - command econ- omy and the advent of Stalinism had its inception in the diplomatic crisis and war scare of 1927. No full scheme of ...
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... struggle against imperialism , which took place during the negotiations with Germany leading to the Treaty of Brest - Litovsk in March 1918 , that Trotsky — in the first public use of the term - called for " peaceful coexis- tence ...
... struggle against imperialism , which took place during the negotiations with Germany leading to the Treaty of Brest - Litovsk in March 1918 , that Trotsky — in the first public use of the term - called for " peaceful coexis- tence ...
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... struggle against us . " The Japa- nese , he thought , could be divided from the Americans , the Americans from the Europeans , and the Germans from the Entente . All the conflicts among the capitalist states generated by the World War ...
... struggle against us . " The Japa- nese , he thought , could be divided from the Americans , the Americans from the Europeans , and the Germans from the Entente . All the conflicts among the capitalist states generated by the World War ...
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... struggle for peace " or " the struggle for peace and disarmament . " The process by which both peaceful coexistence and the struggle for peace and disarmament became the central notions of Soviet foreign relations began in 1922 , when ...
... struggle for peace " or " the struggle for peace and disarmament . " The process by which both peaceful coexistence and the struggle for peace and disarmament became the central notions of Soviet foreign relations began in 1922 , when ...
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