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Alternative Paths - Soviets and Americans, 1917-1920 (Hardcover)
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Alternative Paths - Soviets and Americans, 1917-1920 (Hardcover)
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Between 1917-1920 - from the Bolshevik Revolution to the definitive
statement of American opposition to Bolshevik Russia - Soviets and
Americans searched for ways to effect meaningful interaction
between the nations in the absence of formal diplomatic relations.
During these years wide-ranging discussions occurred on a variety
of serious issues, from military collaboration and economic
relations to the comprehensive settlement of political and military
disputes. At the same time extensive debates took place in both
countries about the nature of the relations between them. As
McFadden shows in this pathbreaking book, based on research in
Soviet archives, as well as previously unused private collections
and government archives in the United States and Great Britain, a
surprising number of concrete agreements were reached between the
two countries, including continued operation of the American Red
Cross in Russia, the transfer of war materials from the Russian
army to the Americans, the sale of strategic supplies of platinum
from the Bolsheviks to the United States, the exemption of a number
of American corporations from Soviety nationalization, and the
numerous trade contracts betwen the Soviet government and American
firms. Numerous imkportant diplomats and politicians were involved
in these negotiations. Most of the details, characters and nature
of these discussions and their efforts have previously been
overlooked or downplayed by historians. In the post-Cold War era,
such a re-evaluation should have special relevance. re-evaluation
of this critical period, McFadden shows how a surprising number of
concrete agreements were reached between the two nations, and the
relevance of this in light of current events such as glasnost.
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