Decision to Intervene (eBook)

George Frost Kennan (Autor)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7981-6 (ISBN)

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In 1918 the United States Government decided to involve itself in the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book recreates that unhappily memorable story—the arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian hostility, the uprising of the Czechoslovak troops in central Siberia which threatened to overturn the Bolsheviks, the acquisitive ambitions of the Japanese in Manchuria, and finally the decision by President Wilson to intervene with American troops. The Decision to Intervene is the second of three volumes in Mr. Kennan's distinguished chronicle of Soviet-American relations. Mr. Kennan’s method is to view a small but crucial segment of history in all its developing intricacy and detail. With rare literary skill he shows distinct individuals acting in an unfolding drama which they understand only partially and on which their influence is limited. Only by such a method can one learn how events seemed to those who took part in them, and how such momentous decisions (as Wilson’s decision to intervene in Russia surely was), are actually made.Originally published in 1958.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Schlagworte: Alexander Kolchak • Allied Commission • Allies of World War II • America Alone • Anglo-Japanese alliance • Anti-Americanism • Anti-Imperialism • Arthur Balfour • bolsheviks • brusilov offensive • Central Powers • Chinese Eastern Railway • Commissar • Committee on Public Information • Communism in Russia • counter-revolutionary • Czechoslovak Legion • czechs • declaration of war • Demobilization • Disarmament • distrust • economic reconstruction • European theatre of World War II • February Revolution • Felix Dzerzhinsky • Finnish Civil War • Finnish Declaration of Independence • Foreign Relations • Foreign relations of Russia • Fourteen Points • French invasion of Russia • George Kennan (explorer) • German Order (decoration) • German resistance to Nazism • hostility • imperialism • Irkutsk • Italian Front (World War I) • Japanese intervention in Siberia • Japan–United States relations • John Foster Dulles • Karl Radek • Leon Trotsky • Liberalism in Russia • Manchuria • mensheviks • military occupation • Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact • Motion of no confidence • national security • Nazi Propaganda • New Army • New Departure (Democrats) • Norman Armour • Northern Expedition • Omsk • Ostracism • Peace treaty • Political commissar • political revolution • Prisoner of War • provisional government • ratification • Red Army • Red Guards (Russia) • Red Tape • Reprisal • Revolution • Robert Lansing • Russia Leaves the War • Russian Armed Forces • Russian Civil War • Russian opposition • Russian Revolution • russians • russian winter • Savinkov • Siberian Intervention • simple people • Soviet Armed Forces • soviet army • Soviet Navy • Soviet Union • Superiority (short story) • Supreme War Council • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk • Tsarist autocracy • United States Department of State • Vladivostok • vologda • war • war effort • warfare • white movement • William Borah • William Henry Chamberlin • World revolution • World War II • Yuryev
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7981-7 / 1400879817
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7981-6 / 9781400879816