The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy

By: David Mayers

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Hardcover | 1 March 1995

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George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, William Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Llewlleyn Thompson, Jack Matlock: these are important names in the history of American foreign policy. Together with a number of lesser-known officials, these diplomats played a vital role in shaping U.S. strategy and popular attitudes toward the Soviet Union throughout its 75-year history. In The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy, David Mayers presents the most comprehensive critical examination yet of U.S. diplomats in the Soviet Union.
Mayers' vivid portrayal evokes the social and intellectual atmosphere of the American embassy in the midst of crucial episodes: the Bolshevik Revolution, the Great Purges, the Grand Alliance in World War II, the early Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the rise and decline of detente, and the heady days of perestroika and glasnost. He also offers rare portraits of the professional lives of the diplomats themselves: their adjustment to Soviet life, the quality of their analytical reporting, their contact with other diplomats in Moscow, and their influence on Washington.
Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of American diplomacy in its most challenging area, this compelling book fills an important gap in the history of U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-Soviet relations. Readers interested in U.S. foreign policy, the cold war, and the policies and history of the former Soviet Union will find The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy an intriguing and informative work.

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`This cool, imaginative and perceptive study of two centuries of American diplomats in Russia takes a neglected topic and gives it purpose and insight at three overlapping levels.' Christian Science Monitor `The publication of David Mayers' The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy confirms this scholar's position at the fore of historians of US diplomacy ... Mayers brings the light of fresh documentation and sound judgement to his subject, in this case the neglected story of US representation in Moscow ... Mayers' treatment of Cold War diplomacy is invaluable ... this phrase in the Embassy's life has been poorly documented and served by scholarship. Mayers makes amends with painstaking references to newly declassified material and interviews with participants in the more recent events ... exemplary book. He has stood back from the cliches of Cold War historiography and thought afresh about an institution located at the core of that conflict. The resulting work is valuable both as history and as a salutary lesson for practitioners of diplomacy.' Diplomacy and Statecraft

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Published: 19th December 1995

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United States Chiefs of Mission in St. Petersburg and Moscow	p. x
Introduction	p. 3
Before Moscow
St. Petersburg and the U.S. Diplomatic Tradition	p. 11
From Comity to Estrangement	p. 35
War and Revolution	p. 67
In Stalin's Time
Preparing for Moscow	p. 93
Purges and the Failure of Collective Security	p. 108
Fragile Coalition	p. 136
Neither War Nor Peace	p. 164
Great Power Rivalry
After Stalin	p. 191
Controlled Rivalry	p. 212
Collapse and the Art of Diplomacy	p. 239
Notes	p. 261
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 323
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