Memories of the Soviet Ambassador to England

Майский И.М. (Maisky I.M.)

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This book introduces the reader to an important episode in the diplomatic history of the USSR - the struggle for the Provisional Trade Agreement with England, concluded in February 1934. In this persistent, sometimes dramatic 15-month struggle, which accompanied the signing of the agreement, there was much that is useful to know the Soviet people of our days. Maisky Ivan Mikhailovich (real name and surname - Jan Lyakhovetsky; 1884 - 1975) was a Soviet diplomat, historian and publicist. He was head of the Press Department of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKID). He was the first editor of the magazine Zvezda. In 1922 he was a witness for the prosecution at the trial of the SRs. January 21, 1932 signed the Soviet-Finnish non-aggression treaty. In 1932-1943 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. July 30, 1941 signed the Agreement on the restoration of diplomatic relations between the USSR and the government of the Polish Republic in exile.

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