The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London / Die Maiski-Tagebücher
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ISBN: 9780300221701
Издательство: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Автор: Gabriel Gorodetsky
2016. 632 p. 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 documentsBritain 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. Scrupulously edited and
checked against a vast range of Russian and Western archival evidence,
this extraordinary narrative diary offers a fascinating revision of the
events surrounding the Second World War."