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Front Cover -- Advance Praise for In the Wake of Empire -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Diplomats in Search of a Government: November 1917-September 1918 -- The Russian Revolution and Russian Officials Abroad -- Diplomatic Activity Abroad, January-May 1918: Intervention and Retention of Russian Rights -- The Search for a Government, Spring-Summer 1918 -- Foreign Policy Objectives of the Anti-Bolshevik Governments in the East, May-July 1918 -- 2. Government in Search of a Policy: October-December 1918 -- The Directory -- The Directory's Foreign Ministry and Its Program -- The Primacy of Recognition -- The Omsk Coup and the Issue of Government Stability -- Russia and Transcaucasia: Emergence of Newly Independent States -- Foreign Policy and Military Assistance from Abroad -- 3. Around the Paris Peace Conference -- The Creation of the Russian Political Conference in Paris -- The Prinkipo Invitation and Its Consequences -- Nationality Questions as International Problems -- Problems of Intervention -- 4. Recognition? March-July 1919 -- Recognition of Finland -- Behind the Scenes at the Paris Peace Conference: Unofficial Consultations with Russian Representatives -- The Exchange of Notes and Its Consequences -- Can an Unrecognized Russia Recognize Finland? -- Balkan Brothers: Serbia and Bulgaria -- 5. Immobility and Defeat: After Versailles -- White Resurgence in the Baltic, Autumn 1919 -- Defending Russian Territorial Integrity -- Relations with Western Neighbors: Romania -- Relations with Western Neighbors: Poland -- The End in the East -- 6. General Vrangel': From Recognition to Evacuation -- Sazonov's Departure -- The Allies (France and Britain) -- Near and Far Abroad -- Poland, Friend or Foe? -- Evacuation -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.

Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996 (reviewed in Pimlico edition, 1997), 923 pp., ISBN 0–150–24364–X.Vladimir N. Brovkin, Behind the Front Lines of the Russian Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918–1922 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), 455 pp., ISBN 0–691–03278–5.Edward Acton, William G. Rosenberg and Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev, eds., Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914–1921 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997), 782 pp., ISBN 0–340–61454–4.Ronald Kowalski, The Russian Revolution, 1917–1921 (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), 269 pp., ISBN 0–415–12437–9.André Liebich. From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy after 1921 (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1997), 476 pp., ISBN 0–674–32517–6.Over eighty years after it occurred, the Russian Revolution continues to engender debate among professional historians as well as the interested public. If the French Revolution is any guide, this interest is very likely to continue indefinitely. Causes and consequences, the meaning and significance of individual component events, the interplay of social forces, and cultural, political, intellectual, economic and a myriad of other aspects have and will continue to be examined and sifted through. Last year – the eightieth anniversary – produced a number of important works on the revolution and its consequences. Those under review here, including an older one from 1994, represent a range of approaches, from introductory accounts for the general reader to summations of the state of knowledge to histories of the revolution's 'losers'.