Maxim Litvinoff
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Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few figures in twentieth-century diplomacy navigated the treacherous currents of Soviet foreign policy with as much skill and moral conviction as Maxim Litvinoff. Arthur Upham Pope's biography chronicles the remarkable life of this Jewish-born Soviet statesman — from his early revolutionary activities and years of exile to his ascent as the USSR's People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, where he became the architect of collective security and one of the most recognisable Soviet voices on the world stage during the inter-war years. Pope presents Litvinoff not merely as a bureaucratic functionary, but as a genuinely complex political idealist who argued passionately for disarmament and international cooperation at the League of Nations, even as Stalin's shadow loomed ever darker over Soviet society. Written with the authority of a scholar who understood both the man and his era, this account illuminates the brutal contradictions of Soviet power — and leaves the reader to wonder what history might have looked like had Litvinoff's counsel been heeded.
Author: Arthur Upham Pope
Format: Hardback
Published: 1943, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.
Genre: Biography
Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few figures in twentieth-century diplomacy navigated the treacherous currents of Soviet foreign policy with as much skill and moral conviction as Maxim Litvinoff. Arthur Upham Pope's biography chronicles the remarkable life of this Jewish-born Soviet statesman — from his early revolutionary activities and years of exile to his ascent as the USSR's People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, where he became the architect of collective security and one of the most recognisable Soviet voices on the world stage during the inter-war years. Pope presents Litvinoff not merely as a bureaucratic functionary, but as a genuinely complex political idealist who argued passionately for disarmament and international cooperation at the League of Nations, even as Stalin's shadow loomed ever darker over Soviet society. Written with the authority of a scholar who understood both the man and his era, this account illuminates the brutal contradictions of Soviet power — and leaves the reader to wonder what history might have looked like had Litvinoff's counsel been heeded.