Revolution and Survival : The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia 1917-18 / / Richard Debo

• Autore: Debo Richard
• Pubblicazione: Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1979
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (477 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 327.47
• Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union Foreign relations 917-1945
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The genesis of a revolutionary foreign policy -- 2. The establishment of unofficial relations with the western powers -- 3. On s'engage et puis on volt -- 4. War or peace: revolutionary foreign policy in transition -- 5. 'No war, no peace' -- 6. This beast springs quickly -- 7. Brest-Litovsk: an evaluation -- 8. The new foreign policy -- 9. War and peace: Soviet-German relations after the peace of Brest-Litovsk -- 10. Soviet Russia and the allies after Brest-Litovsk: the failure of cooperation -- 11. The road to war: last efforts to avert allied intervention -- 12. The road to peace: negotiation of the supplementary treaties with Germany -- 13. Survival -- 14. Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a highly readable and absorbing account of Bolshevik foreign policy during Lenin's first year in power. In tracing the development of that policy, the book considers both the impact it had on a world torn by war and the effect it had on the Bolsheviks themselves, now no longer engaged in clandestine struggle but in effective state control. The book explores Lenin's relationship with the various elements of the party - his fruitful, but frequently discordant, relationship with Trotsky in particular - and the way he sought and obtained support for his policies in the tumultuous political circumstances of 1917 and 1918. It studies Lenin's political style as well, in an attempt to explain the shift from his utopianism of 1917 to his hard-headed political realism of 1918. The analysis focuses on the fundamental questions of how the Soviet state, lacking significant military forces in the midst of a world war, succeeded in surviving the first year of the revolution, and how it survived the new threat of the changed political situation at the end of the war. Revolution and Survival is the first history of Lenin's foreign policy during this crucial period, and Richard Debo has fused insight with style in a fascinating and authoritative book.
• Titolo autorizzato: Revolution and Survival
• ISBN: 1-4426-5368-X; 1-4426-3817-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910149428603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II