The Maisky diaries : the wartime revelations of Stalin's ambassador in London / edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky ; translated by Tatiana Sorokina and Oliver Ready.
Language: English Original language: Russian Publication details: London : Yale University Press, 2016.Description: xlvii, 584 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimilies ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780300221701
- Wartime revelations of Stalin's ambassador in London
- Maiskii, I. M. (Ivan Mikhailovich), 1884-1975 -- Diaries
- Maiskii, I. M. (Ivan Mikhailovich), 1884-1975
- Maĭskiĭ, I. M. (Ivan Mikhaĭlovich), 1884-1975
- Maĭskiĭ, I. M. (Ivan Mikhaĭlovich), 1884-1975 -- Diaries
- Maĭskiĭ, I. M. (Ivan Mikhaĭlovich), 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
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- D754.R9 M28 2016
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 327.47 MAI | Available | 066644 |
Translated from the Russian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Translated from the Russian.
