1. "The Purchase of Seward's Icebox, 1867: a Combination of Statesmanship and Corruption." Join historian Benjamin Rhodes for a discussion of how and why Russia sold Alaska to the United States at a bargain price. Secretary of State William H. Seward can be credited with a brilliant achievement, but congressmen demanded huge bribes for granting their approval. 2. "Mediating the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905." A diplomatic historian surveys the conflict in which Japan destroyed Russia's Baltic fleet at Tsushima Strait and further humiliated St. Petersburg by forcing the cession of all Russian mining and railroad concessions in Northeast China as well as part of Sakhalin Island. President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation, but made no friends either in Russia or Japan. 3. "How Americans Loved the Russian Revolution -- At First." Just as America entered World War I, the Russian monarchy collapsed (somewhat like the USSR?) and Woodrow Wilson hailed a new democratic Russia (somewhat like today's Middle East?). 4. "November, 1917: The Russian Revolution Turns From Hope to Horror." A historian explains why Russians still remember President Wilson's policy of non-recognition on moral grounds and still resent the weak Allied military interventions in North Russian and Siberia. 5. "The Road to Pearl Harbor." Join historian Benjamin Rhodes for a discussion of Japan's drive for empire in China and Southeast Asia. The goal, said Tokyo, was to place the <b>...</b>Длительность: 2:11
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