1. Diplomatic Experience That Never Fades
- Author:
- A. Yakovna
- Publication Date:
- 02-2016
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- East-West Center
- Abstract:
- Success multiplied by intuition is behind many discoveries. This fully applies to British historian Prof. Gabriel Gorodetsky* who has written numerous scholarly works including The Precarious Truce: Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1924-1927, Stafford Cripps’ Mission to Moscow, 1940-1942, etc. Prof. Gorodetsky came across the diaries of Ivan Maisky,** Soviet Ambassador to London while preparing official Soviet-Israeli documents for publication and was immediately interested. Before him few historians had paid attention to this unique historical document. in fact, Stalin never encouraged officials to keep diaries; this explains why they are few and far between in soviet archives.
- Topic:
- Communism, Diplomacy, and History
- Political Geography:
- Israel and Soviet Union