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The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin´s Ambassador in London

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Description for The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin´s Ambassador in London paperback. Editor(s): Gorodetsky, Gabriel. Num Pages: 632 pages, 72 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVUA; 3JJG; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 274 x 49. Weight in Grams: 812.
Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
632
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300221701
SKU
V9780300221701
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About Ivan Maisky
Gabriel Gorodetsky is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and emeritus professor of history at Tel Aviv University.

Reviews for The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin´s Ambassador in London
`Recently discovered diaries by the Soviet ambassador to the UK from 1932 give fascinating insights into Britain before and during the war.' - The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
These diaries throw new light from a fresh angle on the lead-up to 1939 and the subsequent course of the war . . . this is an ... Read more

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