The United States and Russia

“I know of no book which throws more light on that all-important problem than The United States and Russia by Vera Micheles Dean, now published by the Harvard University Press. Nor could the publication of this volume have come at a more useful and a more opportune moment.”—Sumner Welles, in his preface to The United States and Russia.

Dean views Russia not in the light of what we think it should be, but of what it is—a result of the historic forces that have molded its development. She appraises American policy in terms of what is actually possible rather than in terms of what might be ideally desirable, and shows that the two great powers have an opportunity, each in its own way and within the framework of its own experience, to contribute something constructive to the shaping of the post-war world.