An American Diplomat In Bolshevik Russia Dewitt Clinton Poole by Dewitt Clinton Poole 9780299302245, 0299302245 instant download after payment.

Almost one hundred years after World War I and the Russian Revolution, U.S. diplomat DeWitt Clinton Poole's (1885-1952) perspective on his experiences negotiating with Bolshevik authorities and monitoring anti-Bolshevik movements throughout the Soviet Union is now fully accessible. Through Poole's perspective, a key figure in U.S.-Soviet relations, this book sheds new light on the Russian Revolution and World War I.
Diplomat DeWitt Clinton Poole arrived for a new job at the United States
consulate office in Moscow in September 1917, just two months before
the Bolshevik Revolution. In the final year of World War I, as Russians
were withdrawing and Americans were joining the war, Poole found himself
in the midst of political turmoil in Russia. U.S. relations with the
newly declared Soviet Union rapidly deteriorated as civil war erupted
and as Allied forces intervened in northern Russia and Siberia.
Thirty-five years later, in the climate of the Cold War, Poole recounted
his experiences as a witness to that era in a series of interviews.
Historians Lorraine M. Lees and William S. Rodner introduce and annotate
Poole's recollections, which give a fresh, firsthand perspective on
monumental events in world history and reveal the important impact
DeWitt Clinton Poole (1885–1952) had on U.S.–Soviet relations. He was
active in implementing U.S. policy, negotiating with the Bolshevik
authorities, and supervising American intelligence operations that
gathered information about conditions throughout Russia, especially
monitoring anti-Bolshevik elements and areas of German influence.
Departing Moscow in late 1918 via Petrograd, he was assigned to the port
of Archangel, then occupied by Allied and American forces, and left
Russia in June 1919.