Between the Wars - Season 1 Episode 9 The Recognition of Russia: A Climate of Mutual Distrust
10.0030 minutes
From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the Roosevelt administration officially recognized the U.S.S.R. in the first detente in 1933, American relations with the Soviet Union were mistrustful and hostile. Cold War attitudes can be traced back to this period and the national paranoia over Bolshevism.