Moscow: Publishing House "International Relations". 1970. 328 pp. The print run is 6000 copies. Price 1 rub. 36 kopecks. The history of relations between the largest capitalist country, the United States, and Soviet Russia in 1917-1920 has always attracted the attention of researchers. The problems explored in the monograph of Candidate of Historical Sciences L. A. Gvishiani are partially addressed both in general works and in many special works of Soviet historians on the participation of the United States in the anti-Soviet intervention. The appearance of a significant number of works is natural, because we are talking about studying an actual problem. The trends in American politics that emerged at that time are extremely indicative of Washington's attitude to revolutionary changes in other countries up to the present day. At the same time, during the period discussed in the monograph, the foundations of Lenin's foreign policy of our country were laid. Until now, Soviet historiography has not had a special generalizing study of US-Soviet relations in 1917-1920. The work of L. A. Gvishiani fills the gap. The author used materials from the archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (WUA) and the main funds of the Archive of Foreign Policy of Russia, as well as research by Soviet and foreign historians. Along with the problems of the Soviet state's foreign policy towards the United States immediately after the victory of the October Revolution and before the end of the anti-Soviet intervention, the book examines the formation and implementation of the aggressive, anti-Soviet course of American imperialism. L. A. Gvishiani refutes the claim of bourgeois scientists about the existence of a "threat" from the Bolsheviks from the very beginning. The myth about it was not based on facts, but was created, as shown in the monograph, "by the American government representing the interests of the big bourgeoisie" (p.314). Considerations of the struggle against the ... Read more