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"This international, multiauthor collection of essays examines Russian and early Soviet international relations from the Great War's outbreak in August 1914 through the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War, ending with the Peace of Riga in 1921. Taking a broad definition of international relations, the chapters range from state-to-state diplomacy to NGOs, civil society, commerce and culture"--

"This international, multiauthor collection of essays examines Russian and early Soviet international relations from the Great War's outbreak in August 1914 through the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War, ending with the Peace of Riga in 1921. Taking a broad definition of international relations, the chapters range from state-to-state diplomacy to NGOs, civil society, commerce and culture"--

Historians devote a great deal of attention to the diplomacy that led Russia into the Great War, but have tended to neglect the course of this diplomacy once the fighting erupted. This volume addresses that lacuna with a broad range of essays examining the foreign relations of the empire, as well as its republican and early Soviet successors, from the July 1914 Crisis to the end of the Civil War in 1922.Written by distinguished and emerging scholars from North America, Europe, Russia, and Japan, the essays make abundant use of Russian archival collections, largely inaccessible until the 1990s, to reassess the conjectures and conclusions previously drawn from other sources. While some chapters focus on traditional "diplomatic" history, others adopt new "international history" by placing Russia's relations with the world in their social, intellectual, economic, and cultural contexts.Arranged in roughly chronological order, the first volume covers the late imperial period, from 1914 through mid-1916, while the second proceeds through the revolutions of 1917 and the Civil War, up to the end of that conflict in 1922. Together, these books' comments should foster a renewed appreciation for international relations as a central element of Russia's Great War and Revolution.

This book-one of two covering the Russian Civil War in a volume on military affairs during Russia's Great War and Revolution-explores institutions, social groups, and social conflict amid the chaos of the war that followed the Russian Revolution. Drawing on an international cohort of authors and wide range of newly available sources, the book provides insights into the experience of civil war for those living in the ruins of the Russian Empire. In addition to studies of intelligence and the officer corps of the Red and White armies, it also traces the complicated history of Russia's Cossacks through the war. Explorations of the role of ideology and propaganda along with the problem of desertion from the fighting armies give insight into the motivations of the war's soldiers. A series of chapters on peasant insurgency and the anarchic conflicts in Ukraine provide a clearer understanding of often-neglected aspects of the Civil War.