United States Recognition of Soviet Russia: 1917-1933 - Church and State Responses
The October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and the consequent rise of atheistic Communism, initiated a strained relationship between Russia and the United States that continued throughout most of the twentieth century. Almost immediately the United States severed diplomatic relations with the new Soviet...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Catholic Historical Society
2008
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American catholic studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 119, Issue: 4, Pages: 21-51 |
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| Summary: | The October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and the consequent rise of atheistic Communism, initiated a strained relationship between Russia and the United States that continued throughout most of the twentieth century. Almost immediately the United States severed diplomatic relations with the new Soviet Union, but this did not stifle much debate in Church and State circles for almost 20 years concerning the renewal of formal contact between the two great world powers. Issues of trade, religious ideology, material reparations, and fear of Communist expansion through the Third International were debated between proponents and opponents of renewed diplomatic relations. American Catholics, as exemplified most stridently by Edmund Walsh, S.J., vigorously and consistently argued against association with Soviet Russia. Somewhat surprisingly, however, as the Roosevelt administration came to Washington and the "handwriting was on the wall" that diplomatic ties would be renewed, Catholics, including Walsh, resigned themselves to this reality with little fanfare or argument. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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