The Maisky Diary: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin’s Man in London
The Maisky Diary: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin’s Man in London Tue. Mar. 15 2016 4:00pm — 5:30pm 6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center The terror and purges of Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from putting pen to paper, let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between1932 and 1943. The rare diary shows how...
