{"product_id":"russia-leaves-the-war-sovietamerican-relations-19171920-vol-i-9780691008417","title":"Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations  1917-1920  Vol. I","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in History  the National Book Award for Nonfiction  the George Bancroft Prize  and the Francis Parkman Prize  this absorbing volume explores the complexities of the Soviet-American relationship between the November Revolution of 1917 and Russias final departure in March 1918 from the ranks of the warring powers.  These four months  which witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution and Russias departure from the warring powers  set the stage for future relations between the two emerging superpowers. Volume 2 of Soviet American Relations  entitled The Decision to Intervene (Princeton  1958)  explored U.S. intervention in northern Russia and Siberia between 1918 and 1920.The distinguished scholar and public servant George F. Kennan opens the way to an understanding not only of these events but of the subsequent pattern of Soviet-American relations and the complex process of international diplomacy generally.  Kennan became the U.S. governments key analyst of the Soviet Union after a two-year stint in the Foreign Service there (1944-1946)  which had been preceded by service in the American embassy in Moscow before World War II. His \"long telegram\" to his superiors at the State Department  written in 1946 and published a year later in revised form in Foreign Affairs as the famous \"X\" article  was perhaps the most influential statement in the early years of the Cold War.  After leaving the Foreign Service  Kennan joined the faculty at the School for Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton  where he wrote Russia Leaves the War and subsequent books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789744267317,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691008418","price":27.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691008417.jpg?v=1784696022","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/russia-leaves-the-war-sovietamerican-relations-19171920-vol-i-9780691008417","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}