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Writing on the 1917–18 period in Soviet foreign relations, Richard Debo concludes:
Soviet foreign policy in the first years of the Bolshevik revolution was an amalgam of ideology and expediency, Utopian expectation and realistic calculation, daring innovation and classical diplomacy.1
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R. K. Debo, Revolution and Survival: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia 1917–1918(Liverpool, 1979), p. 420.
See also the same author’s Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918–1921(Montreal, 1992).
On the ideology of collective security and its role in foreign policy practice see G. Roberts, The Unholy Alliance: Stalin’s Pact with Hitler(London, 1989), ch. 3.
See the Appendix for the text of the congress resolution on the pact. For background information: ibid. , ch. 2; T.J. Uldricks, ‘Evolving Soviet View of the Nazi-Soviet Pact’ in R. Frucht (ed.), Labyrinth of Nationalism, Complexities of Diplomacy(Columbus, OH, 1992);
L. Bezymensky, ‘The Secret Protocols of 1989 as a Problem of Soviet Historiography’, in G. Gorodetsky (ed.), Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–1991(London, 1994);
M. Hagen, ‘History and Politics under Gorbachev’, Harriman Institute Forum(November 1988);
T. Sherlock, ‘New Thinking on the Nazi-Soviet Pact’, Report on the USSR,28 July 1989;
T. S. Szayna, ‘Addressing “Blank Spots” in Polish-Soviet Relations’, Problems of Communism(November–December 1988);
V. Tolz and T. Sherlock, ‘Latest Attempts to Review History of Soviet-Polish Relations’, Report on the USSR,23 June 1989;
and A. Chubaryan, ‘Revolution and Renewal in History: The Russian and European Experience’, Britain-USSR(April 1990).
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Roberts, G. (1995). Conclusion. In: The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24124-8_10
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