Between The Revolution And The West
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Adolf Hitler
Anglo-Soviet Relations
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Bolshevik international strategy
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cold war policies
Columbia Broadcasting System
Disarmament Conference
Eastern Locarno
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Foreign Commissariat
Foreign Minister
Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact
German Government
German Soviet Rapprochement
Hitler
interwar diplomacy
League of Nations history
Lev Karakhan
mass proletarian revolution
Maxim Litvinov's biography
Military Expenditures
Molotov Ribbentrop context
Mutual Assistance Pact
Naval Forces
Nazi Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Nonaggression Pact
Pierre Etienne Flandin
Preparatory Commission
Prior Negative Position
pro-Western policies
Soviet British Relations
Soviet diplomatic archives research
Soviet foreign relations
Soviet German Relations
Soviet hostility
Soviet Polish Relations
Stalin era politics
USSR's Entry
USSR’s Entry
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367004279
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is the first complete biography of Maxim Litvinov, a Bolshevik revolutionary who began his professional life running guns into Tsarist Russia and eventually became the leading Soviet diplomat in the turbulent 1930s. His was a spectacular career, spanning some of the most dramatic decades of the twentieth century and including an unsuccessful effort to contain Hitler with the cooperation of the Western Allies. Litvinov’s subsequent replacement as Soviet foreign minister by Molotov in 1939 signaled the dramatic shift in Soviet foreign policy that led directly to the outbreak of World War II. After the war, Litvinov’s final public act was to bluntly warn the West of the danger presented by Stalin’s cold war policies–a threat Litvinov even dared to compare with that posed by Hitler a decade earlier. Litvinov’s career ended in the relative obscurity from which it had sprung, his consistently pro-Western policies no longer consonant with the reemerging Soviet hostility toward the West. Passing away from remarkably natural causes in 1951, Litvinov left behind a political legacy that lay dormant for forty years until its recent revival by Mikhail Gorbachev. Between the Revolution and the West is based on extensive research in the Soviet Union and the West, including previously unavailable archives and interviews with Litvinov’s friends and family. Hugh Phillips’ work casts light not only on Litvinov the man but also on Soviet foreign policy during crucial and dramatic times.
Hugh D. Phillips is associate professor of history at Western Kentucky University.
