The Soviet Union at Bretton Woods

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Valerie J. Assetto
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
The Soviet Union

‘No One in Our Age was Cleverer …’

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-136
Author(s):  
Alan Bollard
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
General Theory ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Imf

As troops massed on the border, John Maynard Keynes had to hastily cut short a holiday in France. A government advisor, academic, journalist, and polymath, he spent the next few years working on pioneering and highly innovative economic ideas: how to pay for the war, how to apply his ground-breaking ‘General Theory’ to policy, how to avoid repeating the mistakes of Versailles, and how to set up an international clearing exchange at Bretton Woods that would eventually become the IMF. As Germany turned on the Soviet Union, Keynes became very worried about his Russian in-laws caught up in the terrible siege of Leningrad.

The Statecraft of Dean Acheson

Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
David S. McLellan ◽  
Ronald J. Stupak
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Small Advantage ◽  
De Gaulle

When Dean Acheson was appointed Under Secretary of State in September, 1945, I. F. Stone wrote in The Nation: “He has been pro-De Gaulle, anti-Franco, strongly opposed to the admission of Argentina to the U.N., and friendly to the Soviet Union … of all the men now in the Departrrient, Acheson was by far the best choice for Under Secretary, and it is no small advantage to pick a man who already knows a good deal about the inner workings.” Stone went on to note that one of Acheson's strongest assets was “in his relations with Congress. He deserves a generous share of the credit for the passage of the Bretton Woods legislation, and he played no inconsiderable part in the Senate's approval of the Charter.” In order to placate Acheson's reactionary critics, Tom Connally reassured trie Senate that he would “never have voted for Mr. Acheson's confirmation [as Under Secretary] unless it had been implicitly understood that he would not have a predominant voice in foreign policy.”

Current Views of the Soviet Union on the International Organization of Security, Economic Coöperation and International Law: A Summary

1945 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Prince
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Far East ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Soviet Union

The U.S.S.R. is destined to play a decisive role in establishing an effective international organization of security. Therefore a summary of current trends of thought and attitudes in the Soviet Union is here presented, reflecting its foreign policy and its views on the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, the Bretton Woods Articles of Agreement, the legal status of the Polish Govemment-In-Exile, the treatment of Germany, the Chicago Civil Aviation Conference, the legal status of the Atlantic Charter and the situation in the Far East.

scholarly journals Does The Transatlantic Alliance Have A Future?

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Murat Metin Hakki
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Military Alliance ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Stability

No doubt the early progress in European integration was supported by the pax Americana, the stability of the Bretton Woods system and the ideological front formed by the Western world against the Soviet Union (USSR). An increasingly united Europe was also seen as necessary to avoid yet another world war. Long considered America’s most important alliance and a benchmark by which a president’s foreign policy skill is measured, the US-European relationship has been shaken over a series of disputes that culminated during George W. Bush’s presidency. While the years 2004 and 2005 witnessed a gradual recovery of transatlantic relations, the future remains uncertain. Have these problems arisen because of Bush’s presidential style? Or are there other deeper factors underlying transatlantic tensions? What does the future hold for the political and military alliance that bonded Europe and America for over half a century?

Review of Social Thought in the Soviet Union.

1969 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 516-516
Author(s):  
Morton Deutsch
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
The Soviet Union
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