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Online-Ressource (230 p)
ISBN:
9780813119625
Content:
In 1919 the Soviet government directed Ludwig Martens to open a trade bureau in New York. Before his deportation two years later, Martens had established contact with nearly one thousand American firms and conducted trade in the face of a stiff Allied embargo. His work planted the seeds for growing commercial ties between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. throughout the 1920s.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 docu
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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
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813161334
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813119625
Additional Edition:
Print version Loans and Legitimacy : The Evolution of Soviet-American Relations, 1919-1933
Language:
English
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