Russia Leaves the War

by George Frost Kennan, Frank Costigliola (Foreword by)

Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Parkman Prize

From acclaimed diplomat and historian George Kennan, a landmark history of the crucial months in 1917–1918 that forged the pattern of Soviet-American relations

When the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917, American diplomats in St. Petersburg and Moscow were thrown into a bewildering situation. Should the new regime be recognized? What was its true nature? And was there any way to keep Russia fighting against Germany in the Great War? In vivid detail, George Kennan’s classic history tells the gripping story of the Americans’ furious, and ultimately failed, efforts to strike a deal to keep the Soviets in the war—and how these events set the pattern of future relations between the two emerging superpowers. In a new foreword, Kennan biographer Frank Costigliola puts the book in the context of its Cold War publication and Kennan’s life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691189475
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	01/24/2023
Series:	Princeton Classics , #40
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	592
File size:	30 MB
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About the Author

George F. Kennan (1904–2005) was an American diplomat and historian. After retiring from the State Department, he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. His books include Kennan: A Life between Worlds (Princeton) and The Kennan Diaries.

Editorial Reviews

"Remarkably lucid and comprehensive. With substantial literary skill, [Kennan] has brought the whole somber picture marvelously to life."

The New Yorker

"Kennan has produced not only a unique diplomatic history, but an exciting piece of literature in which all the personalities come to life."

American Scholar

"A work of great scholarship and perception. . . . So tangled a diplomatic story has never been more clearly told."

The Times (London)

"This is live history, resurrected from the dead past by a man with profound understanding of the practical and theoretical side of world diplomacy."—-Earl H. Voss, Washington Star

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