| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914–1921. By Norman E. Saul. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xx, 483 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-1090-1.)

This detailed study is the third in Norman E. Saul's comprehensive look at the sweep of U.S.-Russian relations (previous volumes include Distant Friends, 1991, and Concord and Conflict, 1996). War and Revolution may well be Saul's best work to date. There is no doubt that it was his most challenging. The period of war and revolution in Russian-American relations has not only been mined repeatedly; it remains extremely contentious. Since the 1950s writings on the topic by William Appleman Williams and George F. Kennan, generations of scholars have debated U.S. and Russian policies toward each other and examined all facets of the two societies' interaction in this critical period. In the 1990s, Richard Debo, myself, David Foglesong, Georg Schild, and others have used a host of new materials from previously unavailable or underutilized archives in the United States and Europe to broaden the focus. 1

At the same time, the study of the history of U.S. foreign relations has taken new paths, increasingly examining cultural, social, and nongovernmental actors, following the lead of Emily Rosenberg and others. . . .

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