Jennifer Siegel

• Professor (Full) at Duke University

This article examines the views and assessment of Russia’s foreign bankers and investors on the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the steps taken to subdue the disorder through the dissolution of the Second Duma in 1907. Late Imperial Russia was the foremost debtor country in Europe. The opinions of Russia’s foreign creditors and investors of Russian...

From the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To finance the modernization of industry, the construction of public works projects, the building of railroads, and the development of the military-industrial co...

Late Imperial Russia was the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. Its finance ministers Russia’s repeatedly turned to foreign capital to modernize industry, construct public works and railroads construction, along with subsidizing the military-industrial complex, The percentage of imperial government debt held by foreign...

MansourBonakdarian. Britain and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906–1911: Foreign Policy, Imperialism, and Dissent. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006. Pp. 577. $75.00 (cloth). - Volume 47 Issue 2 - Jennifer Siegel

This book deals with an important region, the southern frontier of Russia, from Tbilisi to Vladivostok, at a vital point in modern history, when new political forces where transforming the states of Turkey/the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Afghanistan and China. The strategic significance of this region remains crucially important today, as, again, new pol...

Intelligence has never been a more important factor in international affairs than it is today. Since the end of the Second World War, vast intelligence bureaucracies have emerged to play an increasingly important role in the making of national policy within all major states. One of the biggest problems within the contemporary thinking about intelli...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [362]-381). Photocopy. s