Historical Dictionary of United States‐Russian/Soviet Relations Available to Purchase

Perhaps I could start this review with a little history. Russia and the USA spent much of the nineteenth century enlarging their borders. They pushed east and west respectively. However their activities have been differently remembered. Russia's activities in Siberia and Central Asia are called imperialism whereas US expansion to the Pacific has been cloaked in the mantle of “Manifest Destiny”. On the whole these activities did not bring the two powers face‐to‐face. Contacts between them were thin.

The pattern of US‐Russian relations in the twentieth century is so different that we might almost be dealing with two new countries....