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Loans and legitimacy : the evolution of Soviet-American relations, 1919-1933 / Katherine A.S. Siegel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996.Description: 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0813171024
  • 9780813171029
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Loans and legitimacy.DDC classification:
  • 327.73047/09/041 20
LOC classification:
  • E183.8.S65 S56 1996eb
Other classification:
  • 15.70
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Contents:
COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGNT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. MARTENS AND THE FIRST SOVIET MISSION; 2. THE DEMISE OF THE SOVIET BUREAU; 3. DIPLOMATIC, MILITARY, AND HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVES, 1919-1923; 4. ECONOMIC FOREIGN POLICY UNDER HARDING; 5. THE SOVIET COMMERCIAL MISSIONS UNDER HARDING, COOLIDGE, AND HOOVER; ILLUSTRATIONS FOLLOW PAGE; 6. TRADE AND FOREIGN POLICY, 1923-1929; 7. AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN, THE NEP, AND THE FIRSTFIVE-YEAR PLAN; 8. SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1929-1933; 9. CONCLUSION; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P
QR; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Summary: Because the United States did not recognize the Soviet Union until 1933, historians have viewed the early Soviet American relationship as an ideological stand-off. Katherine Siegel, drawing on public, private, and corporate documents as well as newly opened Soviet archives, paints a different picture. She finds that business ties flourished between 1923 and 1930, American sales to the Soviets grew twentyfold, and American firms supplied Russians with more than a fourth of their imports. American businesses were only too eager to tap into huge Soviet markets. Along with purchases went credit from major American manufacturers and banks. Under the Soviets' New Economic Policy and first Five Year Plan, American firms invested in the U.S.S.R. and sold technical processes, provided consulting services, built factories, and trained Soviet engineers in the U.S. Most significantly, Siegel shows, this commercial relationship encouraged policy shifts at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Thus when Franklin D. Roosevelt opened diplomatic relations with Russia, he was building on ties that had been carefully constructed over the previous fifteen years. Siegel's study makes an important contribution to a new understanding of early Soviet-American relations.
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Because the United States did not recognize the Soviet Union until 1933, historians have viewed the early Soviet American relationship as an ideological stand-off. Katherine Siegel, drawing on public, private, and corporate documents as well as newly opened Soviet archives, paints a different picture. She finds that business ties flourished between 1923 and 1930, American sales to the Soviets grew twentyfold, and American firms supplied Russians with more than a fourth of their imports. American businesses were only too eager to tap into huge Soviet markets. Along with purchases went credit from major American manufacturers and banks. Under the Soviets' New Economic Policy and first Five Year Plan, American firms invested in the U.S.S.R. and sold technical processes, provided consulting services, built factories, and trained Soviet engineers in the U.S. Most significantly, Siegel shows, this commercial relationship encouraged policy shifts at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Thus when Franklin D. Roosevelt opened diplomatic relations with Russia, he was building on ties that had been carefully constructed over the previous fifteen years. Siegel's study makes an important contribution to a new understanding of early Soviet-American relations.

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COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGNT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. MARTENS AND THE FIRST SOVIET MISSION; 2. THE DEMISE OF THE SOVIET BUREAU; 3. DIPLOMATIC, MILITARY, AND HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVES, 1919-1923; 4. ECONOMIC FOREIGN POLICY UNDER HARDING; 5. THE SOVIET COMMERCIAL MISSIONS UNDER HARDING, COOLIDGE, AND HOOVER; ILLUSTRATIONS FOLLOW PAGE; 6. TRADE AND FOREIGN POLICY, 1923-1929; 7. AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN, THE NEP, AND THE FIRSTFIVE-YEAR PLAN; 8. SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1929-1933; 9. CONCLUSION; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P

QR; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

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