Caught Between Roosevelt & Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow

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University Press of Kentucky, 1998年1月1日 - 349 頁
On November 16, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov signed an agreement establishing diplomatic ties between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two days later Roosevelt named the first of five ambassadors he would place in Moscow between 1933 and 1945. Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin tells the dramatic and important story of these ambassadors and their often contentious relationships with the two most powerful men in the world. More than fifty years after his death, Roosevelt's foreign policy, especially regarding the Soviet Union, remains a subject of intense debate. Dennis Dunn offers an ambitious new appraisal of the apparent confusion and contradiction in Roosevelt's policy - one moment publicizing the four freedoms and the Atlantic Charter and the next moment giving tacit approval to Stalin's control of parts of Eastern Europe and northeast Asia. Dunn argues that "Rooseveltism," the president's belief that the Soviet Union and the United States were both developing into modern social democracies, blinded Roosevelt to the true nature of Stalin's brutal dictatorship despite repeated warnings from his ambassadors in Moscow.
 

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Early 1943
1
William C Bullitt 19331936
11
Stalins Kiss
13
Russia and the State of Grace
31
The Donkey the Carrot and the Club
40
Joseph E Davies 19361938
59
His Brown Eye Is Exceedingly Kindly and Gentle
61
The System Is Now a Type of Capitalistic State Socialism
73
William H Standley 19421943
145
The Secret Message
147
The News Conference
172
Joseph Davies to the Rescue
181
W Averell Harriman 19431946
197
Uncle Joe
199
The Russian Bear is Biting
221
The Russians Have Given So Much
240

Less Objective and More Friendly
82
Laurence A Steinhardt 19391941
95
Old Testament Justice
97
A Silent Partner to Germany
108
Comrade Stalin Becomes Mr Stalin
126
Epilogue
261
Notes
273
Bibliography
323
Index
335
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