Kennan George. Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920. Vol. I: Russia Leaves the War

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. — 574 p.The Immediate Historical Background
Personalities
First Reactions
The Soviet Approach to an Armistice
First Problems of"Contact" with the Soviet Authorities
Allied Deliberations in Paris
Wilson and the War Aims
Lansing and the Recognition Problem
The Problem of Anti-Bolshevik Russia
The Kalpashnikov Affair
The First Brest-Litovsk Crisis
The Fourteen Points
Siberia — the Background
Siberia — the First Exchanges
Japan Asks for a Free Hand
The Diamandi Incident
The Constituent Assembly
Brest-Litovsk and the Americans
Washington and the Problem of"Contacts"
Complications in Petrograd
The Breakup in Petrograd
The Sisson Papers
Siberia and the Final Brest-Litovsk Crisis
Robins and RatificationAppendix

Selected bibliography
Index