David W. McFadden

Reconstructing Russia: U.S. Policy in Revolutionary Russia, 1917–1922. By Leo J. Bacino. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1999. xii, 244 pp.

This volume focuses on the Wilson administrations efforts to find some way to provide economic support to Russian Siberia as a counterpoint to German economic influence. Leo C. Bacino examines Wilsons Russian policy from a government-wide perspective, analyzing several significant issues.

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Introduction Midwest Lawyer and Progressive Democrat Mr. Ambassador, 1937 Ambassador-at-Large Davies and Stalin, 1938 A Three-Year Hiatus The Liaison, 1941 The Litvinov Connection, 1942 The Second Mission to Moscow, May 1943 Evolution of the Role Mission to London, May 1945 Potsdam, July 1945 The Cold War Epilogue Bibliography

Joseph E. Davies: Envoy to the Soviets.

Defining, understanding, and explaining Soviet international behavior has been a problem for western analysts and policymakers from the earliest days of the Bolshevik Revolution. Although a great deal of attention has been devoted to this problem over the years, it remains central to an informed understanding of Soviet foreign policy. Particularly with the end of the Cold War, the demise of the Soviet Union, and the opening of Soviet archives, it may now become possible for a full understanding of this controversial question.1 A key part of Soviet international behavior remains Soviet behavior in negotiating situations, because it directly relates to the positions which the west has taken on negotiations. The extraordinary focus in recent years on arms control negotiations testifies to the critical role this issue has played in the development of American policy toward the Soviet Union, particularly since 1963.2