Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Ask the average academic specialist on Russia what the War Trade Board of the U.S. Russian Bureau, Incorporated was, and you'll draw a blank. Tell him what it was, and he'll claim it wasn't important. Professor Killen of Radford University has rescued the Board from obscurity with a handy little monograph that should have been subtitled A Study in Bureaucracy, not diplomacy. The organization existed only a few months, spent some of the taxpayer's money, then expired. But it did have a role to play in the terribly confused events of 1918—1919, and it is good to have the record set straight." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)