the legal successor to the Soviet Union on the international stage, and in terms of treaties and agreements. Under Boris Yeltsin, Russian foreign policy repudiated Marxism–Leninism as a guide to action, soliciting Western support for capitalist reforms in post-Soviet Russia. See also Dates of establishment of diplomatic relations with the USSR Foreign relations of Russia History of the Soviet Union Ministry of External Relations History of Sino-Russian relations Sino-Soviet split Soviet Union#Foreign relations Soviet Union–United States relations Notes Further reading Bellamy, Chris. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War (2008), 880pp excerpt and text search Beloff, Max. The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia: 1929-1941 (1949) online. Butler, Susan. Roosevelt and Stalin (2015) excerpt Crozier, Brian. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire (1999), long detailed popular history Dallin, David J. Soviet Russia and the Far East (1949) online on China and Japan Feis, Herbert. Churchill Roosevelt Stalin: The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought: A Diplomatic History of World War II (1957), by a senior official of the U.S. State Department online Fischer, Louis. Russia's Road from Peace to War: Soviet Foreign Relations 1917-1941 (1969) Online ; replaces previous histories by Fisher. Gaddis, John Lewis, ed. Russia, Soviet Union & the United States: an Interpretive History (1978) Herring Jr., George C. Aid to Russia, 1941–1946: Strategy, Diplomacy, the Origins of the Cold War (1973) Jacobson, Jon. When the Soviet Union Entered World Politics (1994), on 1920s online Jelavich, Barbara. St. Petersburg and Moscow: Czarist and Soviet Foreign Policy, 1814-1974 (1974), scholarly survey online Keeble, Curtis. Britain and the Soviet Union, 1917-89 (1990). Kennan, George F. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin (1961) Kershaw, Ian, and Moshe Lewin. Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison (2004) excerpt and text search Korbel, Josef. Poland Between East and West: Soviet and German Diplomacy toward Poland, 1919–1933 (Princeton University Press, 1963) online Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (2014), v 1 of major biography Kotkin, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 (2017), v 2 of major biography Librach, Jan. The Rise of the Soviet Empire: A Study of Soviet Foreign Policy (Praeger, 1965) online, a scholarly history McKenzie, David. From Messianism to Collapse: Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1991 (1994), university textbook. McNeill, William Hardy. America, Britain, and Russia: their co-operation and conflict, 1941–1946 (1953) Materski, Wojciech. "The Second Polish Republic in Soviet Foreign Policy (1918-1939)." Polish Review 45.3 (2000):