| Description |
1 online resource (xlvii, 584 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The making of a Soviet diplomat -- 1934 -- 1935 -- 1936 -- 1937 -- 1938 -- 1939 -- 1940 -- 1941 -- 1942 -- 1943 -- End of an era: Maisky's recall -- The price of fame: a late repression |
| Summary |
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. Maisky was distinguished by his great sociability and access to the key players in British public life. Among his range of regular contacts were politicians (including Churchill, Chamberlain, Eden, and Halifax), press barons (Beaverbrook), ambassadors (Joseph Kennedy), intellectuals (Keynes, Sidney and Beatrice Webb), writers (George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells), and indeed royalty. His diary further reveals the role personal rivalries within the Kremlin played in the formulation of Soviet policy at the time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Diaries in English, translated from the original Russian |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 9, 2020) |
| Subject |
Maĭskiĭ, I. M. (Ivan Mikhaĭlovich), 1884-1975.
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| SUBJECT |
Maĭskiĭ, I. M. (Ivan Mikhaĭlovich), 1884-1975 fast |
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Majskij, Ivan Michajlovič 1884-1975 gnd |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
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Ambassadors -- Great Britain -- Diaries
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Ambassadors -- Soviet Union -- Diaries
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Ambassadors
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Diplomatic history
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Diplomatic relations
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Diplomatie
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Ryska diplomater.
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Ambassadörer.
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Diplomatiska förbindelser -- historia.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1917-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125758
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain -- Sources
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Sources
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Great Britain
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Soviet Union
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Großbritannien
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Sowjetunion
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| Genre/Form |
diaries.
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Sources
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Diaries
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Diaries.
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Journaux intimes.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gorodetsky, Gabriel, 1945- editor.
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Sorokina, Tatiana (Translator), translator.
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Ready, Oliver, 1976- translator.
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| ISBN |
9780300217339 |
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0300217331 |
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0300180675 |
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9780300180671 |
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