David S. Foglesong is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is the author of America's Secret War Against Bolshevism: US Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917–1920 (1995).

'Foglesong's exposé of Americans' 'heady sense of their country's unique blessings' helps make sense of the giddiness, followed by rank disillusionment, vis-à-vis the post-Soviet Russia of the 1990s and 2000s.' Stephen Kotkin, Prospect Magazine

• Introduction; 1. 'Free Russia': origins of the First Crusade, 1881–1905; 2. 'The United States of Russia': culmination and frustration, 1905–20; 3. Doors open and closed: opportunities and obstructions in early Soviet Russia, 1921–40; 4. Revival: hopes for a new Russia during the Grand Alliance, 1941–5; 5. Visions of 'liberation', 1946–53; 6. Evolution, not revolution: the eclipse of 'liberation' and the pursuit of 'liberalization', 1954–74; 7. Recovering the faith: renewal of the Crusade, 1974–80; 8. The Reagan mission and the 'evil empire', 1981–9; 9. Mission unaccomplished: America and post-Soviet Russia; Epilogue.

David S. Foglesong is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is the author of America's Secret War Against Bolshevism: US Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917–1920 (1995).

'Foglesong's exposé of Americans' 'heady sense of their country's unique blessings' helps make sense of the giddiness, followed by rank disillusionment, vis-à-vis the post-Soviet Russia of the 1990s and 2000s.' Stephen Kotkin, Prospect Magazine

• Introduction; 1. 'Free Russia': origins of the First Crusade, 1881–1905; 2. 'The United States of Russia': culmination and frustration, 1905–20; 3. Doors open and closed: opportunities and obstructions in early Soviet Russia, 1921–40; 4. Revival: hopes for a new Russia during the Grand Alliance, 1941–5; 5. Visions of 'liberation', 1946–53; 6. Evolution, not revolution: the eclipse of 'liberation' and the pursuit of 'liberalization', 1954–74; 7. Recovering the faith: renewal of the Crusade, 1974–80; 8. The Reagan mission and the 'evil empire', 1981–9; 9. Mission unaccomplished: America and post-Soviet Russia; Epilogue.

David S. Foglesong is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is the author of America's Secret War Against Bolshevism: US Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917–1920 (1995).

'Foglesong's exposé of Americans' 'heady sense of their country's unique blessings' helps make sense of the giddiness, followed by rank disillusionment, vis-à-vis the post-Soviet Russia of the 1990s and 2000s.' Stephen Kotkin, Prospect Magazine

• Introduction; 1. 'Free Russia': origins of the First Crusade, 1881–1905; 2. 'The United States of Russia': culmination and frustration, 1905–20; 3. Doors open and closed: opportunities and obstructions in early Soviet Russia, 1921–40; 4. Revival: hopes for a new Russia during the Grand Alliance, 1941–5; 5. Visions of 'liberation', 1946–53; 6. Evolution, not revolution: the eclipse of 'liberation' and the pursuit of 'liberalization', 1954–74; 7. Recovering the faith: renewal of the Crusade, 1974–80; 8. The Reagan mission and the 'evil empire', 1981–9; 9. Mission unaccomplished: America and post-Soviet Russia; Epilogue.