The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943 by Gabriel Gorodetsky, Ivan Maisky

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943

Annals of Communism

Gabriel Gorodetsky, Ivan Maisky

632 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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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 ambassad...

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