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Documents on British Relations with Russia, 1917-1918

Documents on British Relations with Russia, 1917-1918 DOCUMENT DAVID R. JONES, ed. D o c u m e n t s on British Relations with Russia, 1 9 1 7 - 1 9 1 8 Only in the last few years has the British Government decided to open the sections o f its archives containing documents covering the latter period of the First World War and the immediate post-war years. While it is true t h a t some selected despatches were published from time to time, in such forms as Parliamentary Fapers, War C a b i n e t R e p o r t s , and Gazetted Despatches, scholars were still left with comparatively meager sources as compared with, say, those dealing with American policy during the same period. One o f the major issues o f British policy (as of the policy of all the major nations) concerned relations with revolutionary Russia. From the Allied viewpoint, this issue was, until November, 1918, interwined with that o f the Eastern front and the conduct o f the war. Partly because o f the unavailability of documents, and partly because o f the political sensitivity o f discussions o f Allied decisions http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Documents on British Relations with Russia, 1917-1918

JONES, DAVID R.
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 7 (2): 219 – Jan 1, 1973
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Brill
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© 1973 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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DOCUMENT DAVID R. JONES, ed. D o c u m e n t s on British Relations with Russia, 1 9 1 7 - 1 9 1 8 Only in the last few years has the British Government decided to open the sections o f its archives containing documents covering the latter period of the First World War and the immediate post-war years. While it is true t h a t some selected despatches were published from time to time, in such forms as Parliamentary Fapers, War C a b i n e t R e p o r t s , and Gazetted Despatches, scholars were still left with comparatively meager sources as compared with, say, those dealing with American policy during the same period. One o f the major issues o f British policy (as of the policy of all the major nations) concerned relations with revolutionary Russia. From the Allied viewpoint, this issue was, until November, 1918, interwined with that o f the Eastern front and the conduct o f the war. Partly because o f the unavailability of documents, and partly because o f the political sensitivity o f discussions o f Allied decisions

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