| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

Reconstructing Russia: U.S. Policy in Revolutionary Russia, 1917–1922. By Leo J. Bacino. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1999. xii, 244 pp. $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-635-3.)

Leo J. Bacino has written here a compact, tightly argued interpretation and analysis of U.S. policy with regard to Siberian reconstruction in the revolutionary period. Bacino argues that "the forgotten dimension of the American intervention in Russia represented a sophisticated foreign assistance program" that deserves detailed attention for "the important lessons it can provide for contemporary American policymakers." Bacino then goes on to build a case for the significance of U.S. efforts at economic and social reconstruction in Siberia during the civil war period, concentrating on the Cooperative movement, the Narodnyi Bank, the War Trade Board, and the Stevens Railroad Commission. Bacino's detailed story of these efforts is perhaps the best we have, although it is based largely on U.S. State Department Papers (record groups 43 and 59, National Archives), making little use of private American and British papers or Russian archives. . . .

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