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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Dennis J. Dunn. Caught Between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1998. Pp. xii, 349. $29.95.

The relationship between President Franklin D.Roosevelt and his ambassadors to the Soviet Union followed a familiar pattern of shared views and objectives followed by disillusionment on the part of the ambassadors as they struggled with living in the Soviet Union and dealing with the realities of Stalinism. All but Joseph E. Davies (i.e. William C. Bullitt, Laurence A. Steinhardt, William H. Stanley, and W. Averell Harriman) shed their initial optimistic expectations and to some degree turned away from Roosevelt's preferences on how to deal with Joseph Stalin from recognition in 1933 through the Yalta Conference in 1945. Dennis J. Dunn has provided a reinterpretation of this relationship, drawing on earlier studies of the ambassadors and introducing a limited number of Soviet documents. 1

In reviewing the backgrounds and diplomatic service of each American ambassador in Moscow, Dunn has mastered the challenge of connecting each ambassador's experiences in Moscow with the larger narrative of Roosevelt's policies toward the Soviet Union and the flow of events in Asia and Europe. Just when you anticipate that Dunn is going to get bogged down in the Moscow embassy's problems with backed-up toilets, exchange rates, and luggage inspections, Dunn skillfully shifts the narrative to Roosevelt and escalating problems with Japanese expansion, Nazi Germany, and, finally, keeping the Allied alliance together until victory in 1945. . . .

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