TY - BOOK ID - 871055 TI - The origins of detente PY - 1985 SN - 0521308763 9780521308762 0521526175 0511523785 9780511523786 9780521526173 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - History of Eastern Europe KW - History of Europe KW - anno 1920-1929 KW - Reconstruction (1914-1939) KW - Detente KW - Reconstruction, 1914-1939 KW - Détente (Politique) KW - Genoa Conference, KW - Europe KW - Soviet Union KW - URSS KW - Politics and government KW - Foreign relations KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Relations extérieures KW - Genoa Conference KW - Detente. KW - Reconstruction (1914-1939). KW - Détente (Politique) KW - Economic and Financial Conference. KW - Relations extérieures KW - Geschiedenis van Oost- en Centraal-Europa KW - Geschiedenis van Europa KW - Europe - Politics and government - 1918-1945 KW - Soviet Union - Foreign relations - 1917-1945 KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - International relations KW - World politics KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Postwar reconstruction KW - Reconstruction KW - Economic aspects KW - Conférence économique internationale de Gènes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:871055 AB - The Genoa Conference of April-May 1922 saw the first serious and sustained attempt to negotiate a modus vivendi between the newly established Soviet government in Moscow and the western capitalist countries that surrounded it. Drawing upon a wide range of archival and other sources, many of them unfamiliar or previously unexplored for this purpose, this study traces the evolution of Soviet-Western relations from the Revolution up to the autumn of 1921, when the proposal for a conference first began to emerge, and then considers in more detail the course of preconference diplomacy and the proceedings of the conference itself, up to the early summer of 1922. In his final chapter Dr White argues that the failure to resolve East-West differences at Genoa was attributable to a variety of circumstances, but above all to a failure of political will. ER -