Bücher von Gabriel Gorodetsky

Lenin's death at the beginning of 1924 coincided with an exhaustive search by the USSR for a modus vivendi with the capitalist world. In laying the foundations of peaceful co-existence, priority was given to the cultivation of relations with Britain.

Sir Stafford Cripps' meteoric rise from the radical fringe of Parliament to membership of the War Cabinet came via his ambassadorship to Moscow at the turning-point in the War. This lively revisionist account of a crucial phase in his career.