Russia Bolshevism And The Versailles Peace

Author : John M. Thompson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400878888

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Russia, Bolshevism, and the Versailles Peace by John M. Thompson Pdf

This book describes disagreements among the diplomats in Paris over the Russian problem, and it analyzes Allied policy toward Russia as it developed at the conference and led into a halfhearted intervention in Russia in 1919. It covers the period from the Armistice until January 1920. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Georg Schild
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037441287

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Between Ideology and Realpolitik by Georg Schild Pdf

In this concise interpretation of Wilson's Russian policy, Schild challenges the belief that Wilson's response to the 1917 October Revolution was exclusively ideological. Contrary to the belief that when Wilson sent American troops to intervene in 1918, his goal was to establish a democratic order in Russia, this book shows that his actions were more pragmatic. Wilson's belief in the superiority of liberalism over totalitarianism was so strong that he expected democratic forces in Russia to take power without outside aid. At the Paris Peace Conference, he rejected suggestions for an anti-Soviet crusade. His July 1918 decision to intervene was not a part of Wilson's ideology. It was based on an effort to maintain unity with Britain and France during the final phase of World War I. Wilson did, indeed, have a liberal anti-Bolshevik agenda. However, his belief in the superiority of liberalism over totalitarianism was so strong that he expected democratic forces in Russia to take power without any outside aid. At the Paris Peace Conference, he rejected all suggestions for a Western anti-Soviet crusade or for a division of Russia. His 1918 decision to intervene was not part of Wilson's ideological confrontation with the Bolsheviks. It was based on an effort to maintain unity with the British and French governments during the final phase of World War I. Wilson's Russian policy, the author concludes, was determined both by his ideological anti-Bolshevism and pragmatic demands for alliance cohesion.

Author : Eberhard Kolb
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415344417

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The Weimar Republic by Eberhard Kolb Pdf

The Weimar Republic provides both a clear historical narrative of this critical period in German history and a detailed analysis of the scholarly research in the field

Author : John Maynard Keynes
Publisher : 北戴河出版
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes Pdf

Author : Keith Neilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139448864

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Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919–1939 by Keith Neilson Pdf

A major re-interpretation of international relations in the period from 1919 to 1939. Avoiding such simplistic explanations as appeasement and British decline, Keith Neilson demonstrates that the underlying cause of the Second World War was the intellectual failure to find an effective means of maintaining the new world order created in 1919. With secret diplomacy, alliances and the balance of power seen as having caused the First World War, the makers of British policy after 1919 were forced to rely on such instruments of liberal internationalism as arms control, the League of Nations and global public opinion to preserve peace. Using Britain's relations with Soviet Russia as a focus for a re-examination of Britain's dealings with Germany and Japan, this book shows that these tools were inadequate to deal with the physical and ideological threats posed by Bolshevism, fascism, Nazism and Japanese militarism.

Author : Leonard V. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192540843

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Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 by Leonard V. Smith Pdf

We have known for many decades that the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 "failed", in the sense that it did not prevent the outbreak of World War II. This book investigates not whether the Paris Peace Conference succeeded or failed, but the historically specific international system it created. It explores the rules under which that system operated, and the kinds of states and empires that inhabited it. Deepening the dialogue between history and international relations theory makes it possible to think about sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference in new ways. Sovereignty in 1919 was about not just determining of answers demarcating the international system, but also the questions. Sovereignty in 1919 was about remaking the world. Most histories of the Paris Peace Conference stop with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles with Germany on 28 June 1919. Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 considers all five treaties produced by the conference as well as the Treaty of Lausanne with Turkey in 1923. It is organized not chronologically or geographically, but according to specific problems of sovereignty. A peace based on "justice" produced a criminalized Great Power in Germany, and a template problematically applied in the other treaties. The conference sought to unmix lands and peoples in the defeated multinational empires by drawing boundaries and defining ethnicities. The conference sought not so much to oppose revolution as to instrumentalize it in the new international system. The League of Nations, so often taken as the supreme symbol of the failure of the conference, is better considered as a continuation of the laboratory of sovereignty established in Paris.

Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913026134

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The First World War – A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter by Alan Woods Pdf

On 28 June 1914, two pistol shots shattered the peace of a sunny afternoon in Sarajevo. Those shots reverberated around Europe and shattered the peace of the whole world. This was the beginning of the Great Slaughter. Could it have been avoided? Alan Woods uses the method of Marxism to answer this question. He explains that, actually, whilst individuals play an important role in history, to explain events such as wars, one must look at deeper causes. As well as dealing with the origin of the war, Woods traces the conflict through its development, looking at the role of all the major actors, and their aims. He shows how in the midst of the despair of the trenches and the home front, a new consciousness was formed. He also makes the case that it was the German Revolution that brought the war to an end, and how a revolutionary wave swept across Europe. The book also looks at the Treaty of Versailles and how the victorious powers imposed the deal, not just on Germany, but the rest of Europe and the Middle East. Given the amount of nationalistic mystification from all sides about the First World War, a history of the subject from the standpoint of the world working class is essential and it is provided by this book.

Author : Alan Sharp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137611413

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The Versailles Settlement by Alan Sharp Pdf

The third edition of this acclaimed textbook on peace-making after the First World War advances that the responsibility for the outbreak of a new, even more ruinous, war in 1939 cannot be ascribed entirely to the planet's most powerful men and their meeting in Paris in January 1919 to reassemble a shattered world. Giving a concise overview of the problems and pressures these key figures were facing, Alan Sharp provides a coherent introduction to a highly complex and multi-dimensional topic. This is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules on the Versailles Settlement, European and International History, Modern History, Interwar Europe, The Great War, 20th Century Europe, German History, or Diplomatic History, on either history courses or international relations/politics courses.

Author : Richard Pipes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307788610

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Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime by Richard Pipes Pdf

From the accliamed authority on Russia and the Russian Revolution—the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924 "Offers a penetrating analysis of the making of the Soviet system.... [It is] a passionate book whose outstanding scholarship is rooted in universal values like truth, honor, responsibility and the sacredness of human life." —Philadelphia Inquirer "Timely.... The work is enriched in intriguing ways by the author's access to the once-secret archives of the Soviet Union." —Los Angeles Times

Author : DeWitt Clinton Poole
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299302245

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An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia by DeWitt Clinton Poole Pdf

Almost one hundred years after World War I and the Russian Revolution, U.S. diplomat DeWitt Clinton Poole's (1885-1952) perspective on his experiences negotiating with Bolshevik authorities and monitoring anti-Bolshevik movements throughout the Soviet Union is now fully accessible. Through Poole's perspective, a key figure in U.S.-Soviet relations, this book sheds new light on the Russian Revolution and World War I.

Author : Lawrence Emerson Gelfand
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 1587290782

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Herbert Hoover--The Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914-23 by Lawrence Emerson Gelfand Pdf

Author : Arthur S. Link
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469640198

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Woodrow Wilson and a Revolutionary World, 1913-1921 by Arthur S. Link Pdf

In a dazzling array of the most recent research and writing, the contributors deal with Wilson's approach to the Mexican and Russian revolutions; his Polish policy; his relationship with the European Left, world order, and the League of Nations; and Wilson and the problems of world peace. They show that Wilson was in many ways the pivot of twentieth-century world affairs; his commitment to anticolonialism, antiimperialism, and self-determination still guides U.S. foreign policy. Originally published in 1982. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Li︠u︡dmila Gennadʹevna Novikova
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299317409

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An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative by Li︠u︡dmila Gennadʹevna Novikova Pdf

Shows that the Russian Civil War was not a struggle between a Communist future and a Tsarist past but rather was a bloody fight among diverse factions in a postrevolutionary state. Focusing on the sparsely populated Arkhangelsk region in northern Russia, Novikova shows that the anti-Bolshevik government there, which held out from 1918 to early 1920, was a revolutionary alternative bolstered by broad popular support.

Author : Jonathan Smele
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441119926

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The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Jonathan Smele Pdf

The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the years 1917 to 1921 is one of the most widely studied periods in history. It is also somewhat inevitably one that has generated a huge flow of literature in the decades that have passed since the events themselves. However, until now, historians of the revolution have had no dedicated bibliography of the period and little claim to bibliographical control over the literature. The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921offers for the first time a comprehensive bibliographical guide to this crucial and fascinating period of history. The Bibliography focuses on the key years of 1917 to 1921, starting with the February Revolution of 1917 and concluding with the 10th Party Congress of March 1921, and covers all the key events of the intervening years. As such it identifies these crucial years as something more than simply the creation of a communist state.

Author : John M. House
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817318895

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Wolfhounds and Polar Bears by John M. House Pdf

In the final months of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and many US allies decided to intervene in Siberia in order to protect Allied wartime and business interests, among them the Trans-Siberian Railroad, from the turmoil surrounding the Russian Revolution. American troops would remain until April 1920 with some of our allies keeping troops in Siberia even longer. These soldiers eventually played a role in the Russian revolution while protecting the Trans-Siberian Railroad. This book brings their story to life.