Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Foglesong, David S. America's secret war against Bolshevism. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995 (OCoLC)604261736 |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David S Foglesong |
| ISBN: | 0807822280 9780807822289 0807849588 9780807849583 |
| OCLC Number: | 31901007 |
| Description: | x, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Note on Dates and Russian Transliteration -- 1. The Development of a Wilsonian Style of Intervention -- 2. The Origins of American Anti-Bolshevism -- 3. Keeping Faith with Russia: Ambassador Boris Bakhmeteff and U.S. Efforts to Restore "Democracy" -- 4. The British Connection: American Covert Aid to Anti-Bolsheviks in South Russia, 1917-1918 -- 5. American Intelligence Gathering, Propaganda, and Covert Action in Revolutionary Russia -- 6. American Intervention in Siberia, 1918-1920: The Search for Anti-Bolshevik "Nuclei" and "Strong Men" -- 7. Fighting, but Not a War: American Intervention in North Russia, 1918-1919 -- 8. Food as a Weapon against Bolshevism: American "Humanitarian" Intervention in the Baltic Region, 1919 -- 9. The Struggle against Intervention: Soviet Policy toward America, 1917-1920. |
| Responsibility: | David S. Foglesong. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
From the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson's administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways. Drawing on previously unavailable American and Russian archival material, David Foglesong chronicles both sides of this secret war and reveals a new dimension to the first years of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. Foglesong explores the evolution of Wilson's ambivalent attitudes toward socialism and revolution before 1917 and analyzes the social and cultural origins of American anti-Bolshevism. Constrained by his espousal of the principle of self-determination, by idealistic public sentiment, and by congressional restrictions, Wilson had to rely on secretive methods to affect the course of the Russian Civil War.
The administration provided covert financial and military aid to anti-Bolshevik forces, established clandestine spy networks, concealed the purposes of limited military expeditions to northern Russia and Siberia, and delivered ostensibly humanitarian assistance to soldiers fighting to overthrow the Soviet government. In turn, the Soviets developed and secretly funded a propaganda campaign in the United States designed to mobilize public opposition to anti-Bolshevik activity, promote American-Soviet economic ties, and win diplomatic recognition from Washington.
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Tags
Add tags for "America's secret war against Bolshevism : U.S. intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920".
Be the first.
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(5)
- Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1913-1921.
- Burgeroorlogen.
- Bolsjewisme.
- Interventie.
User lists with this item (2)
- HIST 355 US Int(4 items)
by csmall1 updated 2013-04-02
- Things to Check Out(18 items)
by Rchiuchi updated 2011-08-14
