The history of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and Russia is reconstructed by the author through portraits of the People’s Commissars and Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Above all, this book offers fourteen biographies of world-famous people whose personal qualities had a decisive influence on the development of the state’s foreign-policy strategy.
At the same time, L. Mlechin shows: ministers change, but some diplomatic traditions established right after the revolution remain. The book is devoted not only to foreign policy and diplomacy. It is also another look at the fate of our country—from 1917 to the present day.