Decision to Intervene

by George Frost Kennan

Overview

In 1918 the U.S. government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book re-creates that unhappily memorable storythe arrival of British marines at Murmansk, the diplomatic maneuvering, the growing Russian hostility, the uprising of 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. Of this period Kennan writes, "Never, surely, in the history of American diplomacy, has so much been paid for so little."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691652764
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #1928
Pages:	542
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.70(d)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• Preface, pg. vii
• Contents, pg. ix
• Illustrations, pg. xi
• Prologue, pg. 1
• I. The Russian North, pg. 15
• II. Complications in Murmansk, pg. 31
• III. Siberia in March 1918, pg. 58
• IV. The First Japanese Landing, pg. 84
• V. The Wraith of allied-soviet Collaboration, pg. 107
• VI. The Czechoslovak Legion, pg. 136
• VII. Robins and Summers, pg. 166
• VIII. Arthur Bullard and the “Compub″, pg. 190
• IX. Robins’ Departure, pg. 208
• X. Envoi to Robins, pg. 233
• XI. The North in April and May, pg. 245
• XII. The Americans and the Czech Uprising, pg. 277
• XIII. Consul Poole and the Future of the Czechs, pg. 296
• XIV. Private American Influences, pg. 322
• XV. The Ripening of the Siberian Question, pg. 340
• XVI. Decision on Murmansk and Archangel, pg. 363
• XVII. The Decision on Siberia, pg. 381
• XVIII. The Despatch of American Forces to Russia, pg. 405
• XIX. July and the Final Breakup, pg. 430
• XX. The End at Moscow, pg. 453
• Epilogue, pg. 470
• Appendices, pg. 475
• Acknowledgments, pg. 486
• Selected Bibliography, pg. 488
• Index, pg. 497