The history of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and Russia is recreated by the author through portraits of the ministers of foreign affairs and the People’s Commissars. This book is above all biographies of people famous to the world whose personal character had a decisive influence on the development of the state’s foreign-policy strategy. At the same time, the author shows that ministers change, yet some diplomatic traditions established immediately after the revolution remain.
L. Mlechin’s book is devoted not only to foreign policy and diplomacy. It is another look at the fate of our country from 1917 to the present day.
Here is the first part of the book, which covers Leon Trotsky, Georgy Chicherin, Maxim Litvinov, and Vyacheslav Molotov.