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

by Ivan Maisky

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300180675
• ISBN13: 9780300180671
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"