A first-class study of its subject and one that has a surprisingly direct bearing upon the issues that figure on the international agenda as the west confronts another change of regime in Moscow.--Slavic Review|""A fresh and thorough study of a relatively neglected area of Western involvement with the Bolshevik Revolution in its early stages.""--Russian Review|""Insightful and compelling. That anticommunism determined diplomacy is certain, but White shows that public and private figures subordinated ideology to economics.""--Diplomatic History|""For students of international relations and, in particular, for those interested in the connection between military, political, diplomatic, economic, and commercial relations, Christine White's offering is a fine example of the genre.""--International History Review