Letter from G. S. Buchanan, Local Government Board, London, England, to Colonel W. C. Gorgas, November 23, 1912

This is an item from the William Crawford Gorgas Papers. It includes material created by and written about Gorgas, as well as material created by Gorgas' family members. His diaries and journals illuminate his life and work for the U.S. Army as a surgeon and span the years he worked in Cuba and Panama. The collection includes official reports and other documents Gorgas wrote and collected, as well as articles and other publications written about Gorgas and his work in sanitation and disease prevention, particularly yellow fever. Correspondence, articles, and other items document the numerous awards and tributes Gorgas received during his life and memorials after his death in 1920. In addition to William Crawford Gorgas material, the collection includes other material belonging to Gorgas family members including Marie Gorgas and their daughter, Aileen Gorgas Wrightson. In 1924, his widow Marie Gorgas published William Crawford Gorgas: His Life and Work. This collection includes manuscripts, galley proofs, and published versions of her work

Revolution and Foreign Policy

Tsarist foreign policy in the years before 1917 was shaped by a variety of long‐term and short‐term factors. The same was true of the foreign policy pursued by the Provisional Government that came to power in 1917. Ministers in the Provisional Government also had to balance international and domestic pressures when seeking to promote policies designed to ensure the country's survival in the War against the central powers. The leaders of the Bolshevik Party, which overthrew the Provisional Government in October 1917, rejected traditional forms of ‘bourgeois’ diplomacy in favor of a proletarian internationalism that emphasised class solidarity across national boundaries. When the October Revolution did not lead to a world revolution, the Bolshevik leadership had to adapt their foreign policies and find ways of ensuring their survival in a world of hostile states. They sought to achieve their objectives by combining traditional diplomatic methods with a continued programme of revolutionary propaganda and subversion in foreign countries. The enduring character of the international global order placed limits on the ability of any single country to operate outside its established institutional and cultural forms. It is as a result possible to see continuities in Russian foreign policy across the 1917 divide