The U.S. and The Bolshevik Revolution - Foreign Policy Response

Foreign Policy Response

The United States responded to the revolution by participating in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War with the Allies of World War I in support of the White movement. The United States withheld diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union until 1933.

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