Loans and legitimacy : the evolution of Soviet-American relations, 1919-1933 /
Sibley, Katherine A. S. 1961-
Loans and legitimacy : the evolution of Soviet-American relations, 1919-1933 / Katherine A.S. Siegel. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996. - 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.
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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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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POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--International Relations--General.
Diplomatic relations.
Buitenlandse betrekkingen.
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
États-Unis--Relations extérieures--URSS.
URSS--Relations extérieures--États-Unis.
Soviet Union.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
E183.8.S65 / S56 1996eb
327.73047/09/041
Loans and legitimacy : the evolution of Soviet-American relations, 1919-1933 / Katherine A.S. Siegel. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996. - 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.
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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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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
0813171024 (electronic bk.) 9780813171029 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper)
95026338
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--International Relations--General.
Diplomatic relations.
Buitenlandse betrekkingen.
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
États-Unis--Relations extérieures--URSS.
URSS--Relations extérieures--États-Unis.
Soviet Union.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
E183.8.S65 / S56 1996eb
327.73047/09/041