The Complete Maisky Diaries
Volumes 1-3
Ivan Maisky author Tatiana Sorokina translator Oliver Ready translator Gabriel Gorodetsky editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Yale University Press
Published:3rd Jan '18
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The complete diaries that Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London, kept between 1932 and 1943
Confiscated by Soviet authorities in the 1950s, the diaries of Ivan Maisky, the USSR’s ambassador to Great Britain from 1932 to 1943, have been unearthed, annotated, and edited for publication in a three-volume set that Niall Ferguson predicts "will stand as one of the great achievements of twenty-first century historical scholarship." Maisky’s revelations illuminate Soviet foreign policy in the years prior to and during World War II, providing fascinating perspectives on London’s political life and climate, key figures and events, and the Kremlin rivalries that influenced Soviet policy.
- Volume 1: The Rise of Hitler and the Gathering Clouds of War, 1932–1938
- Volume 2: The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and the Battle of Britain, 1939–1940
- Volume 3: The German Invasion of Russia and the Forging of the Grand Alliance, 1941–19
“Gabriel Gorodetsky’s edition [of the diaries] — abridged and unabridged — is a work for the ages.”—Niall Ferguson, The New York Times Book Review, “By the Book” column
“This three-volume work reprints Gorodetsky’s introduction and conclusion, with occasional revisions, and adds useful historiographical or contextual endnotes and a bibliography”– Michael Jabara Carley, The Slavonic and East European Review
“[A] gripping read...Not only do they take the reader through the momentous and fateful years between 1932 and 1943 when Ivan Maisky was Ambassador to the British Court St James’s, but they demand our attention with a new perspective on the whole period.”—Anne Deighton, H-Diplo Roundtable [Journal]
ISBN: 9780300117820
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 3039g
1664 pages