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The Maisky diaries : the wartime revelations of Stalin's ambassador in London

Maوiskiوi, I. M. (Ivan Mikhaوilovich), 1884-1975, author, Gorodetsky, Gabriel, 1945- editor

Overview

The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. This selection from Maisky's diary, never before published in English, grippingly documents Britain's drift to war during the 1930s, appeasement in the Munich era, negotiations leading to the signature of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, Churchill's rise to power, the German invasion of Russia, and the intense debate over the opening of the second front.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: Maوiskiوi, I. M. 1884-1975. / World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history. / Ambassadors Great Britain Diaries. / Ambassadors Soviet Union Diaries. / Soviet Union Foreign relations 1917-1945. / Soviet Union Foreign relations Great Britain Sources. / Great Britain Foreign relations Soviet Union Sources.
• ISBN: 9780300221701, 0300221703

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