TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sibley,Katherine A.S.
TI  - Loans and legitimacy: the evolution of Soviet-American relations, 1919-1933 
SN  - 0813171024
AV  - E183.8.S65 S56 1996eb
U1  - 327.73047/09/041 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - International
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - International Relations
KW  - General
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Buitenlandse betrekkingen
KW  - gtt
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Relations extérieures
KW  - URSS
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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