Books on Soviet foreign policy during 1930s-40s (PDFs)

[Mrdie]

Myself and others scan books with permission from publishers and/or authors. We also scan Soviet books in English which no longer have copyrights on them. Accordingly, here's a list of books we've scanned that people here might find of interest.

* Light on Moscow (1939)
* Must the War Spread? (1940)
* Russia, Finland and the Baltic (1940)
* War and Peace in Finland: A Documented Survey (1940)
* The Soviets Expected It (1942)
* The Soviet-Finnish Campaign: Military & Political (1942)
* The Baltic Riddle: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania—Key Points of European Peace (1943)
* Soviet Russia and the Baltic Republics (1944)
* A History of Anglo-Soviet Relations (1944, first volume covering 1919-1942)
* Falsificators of History (1948)
* The State Department and the Cold War: A commentary on its publication, “Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941” (1948)
* Documents and Materials Relating to the Eve of the Second World War (1948, Volume I covering 1937-38, Volume II covering the Dirksen Papers of 1938-39)
* The Origin of World War II and the Prewar European Political Crisis of 1939 (1955)
* The Munich Conspiracy (1958)
* Who Helped Hitler? (1964)
* Why War Was Not Prevented: A Documentary Review of the Soviet-British-French Talks in Moscow, 1939 (1970)
* Secrets of the Second World War (1971)
* USSR: For Peace Against Aggression, 1933-1941 (1976)
* Winston Churchill (1978)
* Soviet Foreign Policy (Volume I covering 1917-1945)
* Diplomatic Battles Before World War II (1982)
* Before the Nazi Invasion: Soviet Diplomacy in September 1939-June 1941 (1984)
* The Roots of European Security: 40 Years after the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences (1984)
* The Unbroken Record: Soviet Treaty Compliance (1985)
* The Road to Great Victory: Soviet Diplomacy, 1941-1945 (1985)
* The Yalta Conference 1945: Lessons of History (1985)
* Lithuania: The Road to Independence, 1919-1940 (1987)
* Soviet-U.S. Relations, 1933-1942 (1989)
* Maxim Litvinov (1990)

 

[Count Blue]

Myself and others scan books with permission from publishers and/or authors.

Thank you.
Much appreciated.

EDIT:
Some of the stuff is rather odd I would say.
However the effort is still appreciated.

 

[Conanteacher]

Ivan Maisky - Who helped Hitler?
Is a really interesting read. I certainly recommend it

 

[Mrdie]

Added The State Department and the Cold War to the first post.

 

[Cavalry]

oh this come right when I look for free info on Anglo-Soviet Diplomacy after fall of France to Barbarossa, and most of the sources i find is not free!

 

[liveandletdie14]

Just a FYI


The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943 (2015)

Very much worth reading, secret private diaries only recently accessed from the archives especially at a time when diary writing was arrest-able.

 

[Eusebio]

Just a FYI


The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943 (2015)

Very much worth reading, secret private diaries only recently accessed from the archives especially at a time when diary writing was arrest-able.

Was a Christmas present last year. Quite interesting, although Maisky is shut out of influencing Soviet policy much by the end. Most of the war entries are him complaining to Eden that not enough Lend Lease is being sent.

 

[Mrdie]

Added The Origin of World War II and the Prewar European Political Crisis of 1939 to the first post.

 

[diegosimeone]

This is a great collection. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Mrdie]

Added Documents and Materials Relating to the Eve of the Second World War.

 

[Fanstar1]

the diary of a soviet schoolgirl 1932-1937 by Nina lugovskaya Is pretty interesting.

 

[Czert]

some are extremly intereesing books, but dont have time to read them all.

 

[Mrdie]

Added The Soviet-Finnish Campaign: Military & Political. There's two other books I intend to scan as well once they arrive (one on the war with Finland, another on Finland and the Baltics, both written in 1940.)

 

[Mrdie]

There's two other books I intend to scan as well once they arrive (one on the war with Finland, another on Finland and the Baltics, both written in 1940.)

I've now added these (Russia, Finland and the Baltic and War and Peace in Finland: A Documented Survey.)

 

[Tufto]

A wonderful initiative and a wonderful thread, thank you for doing this .

 

[WandererRTF]

Read the Finnish parts of some of those... Some hilariously red tinted - and out of touch with reality (or history) - texts you got there.

 

[extracrispy]

Do you happen to have any resources on Soviet legal theory in English? It is an interest of mine that I have not explored yet.

 

[Mrdie]

Do you happen to have any resources on Soviet legal theory in English? It is an interest of mine that I have not explored yet.

The most famous example of Stalin-era legal theory is Vyshinsky's The Law of the Soviet State.

There are English-language works on Soviet legal theory from after Stalin died, but they're not online.

Read the Finnish parts of some of those... Some hilariously red tinted - and out of touch with reality (or history) - texts you got there.

Most of the books were published in the USSR or by pro-Soviet figures, so one can obviously find something objectionable in them.

 

[extracrispy]

The most famous example of Stalin-era legal theory is Vyshinsky's The Law of the Soviet State.

There are English-language works on Soviet legal theory from after Stalin died, but they're not online.

Most of the books were published in the USSR or by pro-Soviet figures, so one can obviously find something objectionable in them.

Thank you. That's what I was looking for. I completely missed your post, which was way I was late in responding.

 

[Mrdie]

Added a 1978 Soviet biography of Winston Churchill to the first post.