The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of st James'S, 1932-1943 [Audiobook] download free by Ivan Maisky
- Listen audiobook: The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of st James'S, 1932-1943
- Author: Ivan Maisky
- Release date: 2015/10/8
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780300180671
- Rating: 9.91 of 10
- Votes: 385
- Review by: Daniel Rider
- Review rating: 9.59 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/17
- Duration: 8H2M41S in 256 kbps (126.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AAC, FLAC, MP3, WMA, Apple Lossless, MPEG4, WAV (compression ZIP, TAR.GZ, CBC, RAR, Z, ISO, AZW)
- Total pages original book: 632
- Includes a PDF summary of 62 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 46M58S (12.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 English, grippingly documents Britain's drift to war during the 1930s, appeasement in the Munich era, negotiations leading to the signature of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, Churchill's rise to power, the German invasion of Russia, and the intense debate over the opening of the second front. Maisky was distinguished by his great sociability and access to the key players in British public life. Among his range of regular contacts were politicians (including Churchill, Chamberlain, Eden, and Halifax), press barons (Beaverbrook), ambassadors (Joseph Kennedy), intellectuals (Keynes, Sidney and Beatrice Webb), writers (George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells), and indeed royalty. His diary further reveals the role personal rivalries within the Kremlin played in the formulation of Soviet policy at the time. Scrupulously edited and checked against a vast range of Russian and Western archival evidence, this extraordinary narrative diary offers a fascinating revision of the events surrounding the Second World War.
- Other categories, genre or collection: European History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Diplomacy, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Diaries, Letters & Journals, International Relations, British & Irish History
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 43.59 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x50.8mm
- Weight: 1,152g
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- Published in: New Haven, United States
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