Publisher's Synopsis
Reproduces approximately 10,000 documents pulled from over 50 repositories around the world, including the former Soviet Union, mostly in English, with 80 percent of the foreign-language materials having been translated or accompanied by English-language abstracts. Covers World War I and its immediate aftermath, concentrating on America's role in the Russian Civil War and early relations between the United States and the newly formed Soviet Union. This material is the result of decades of research by historian Betty Miller Unterberger, renowned professor of American diplomacy and international history at Texas A&M University and former president of the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Each document is preceded by a control sheet produced by Professor Unterberger listing the sender, recipient, date,. repository and a brief description.
