Selected Publications
- Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia (Yale, University Press, 1999), also in French (Belles Lettres), German (Siedler), Hebrew (Ma’arachot), Russian (Rospen).
- Stafford Cripps in Moscow, Diary and Letters, 1940-42 (Cass, 2008).
- Russia between East and West: Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshold of the 21st Century (Cass, London, 2003)
- et.al. initiator and co-editor, Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1941-1953 (2 vols.) (Cass, London, 2000).
- Mif Ledokola (Moscow, Progress, 1995) (In Russian: The Icebreaker Myth).
FRIAS Project
From Appeasement to the Grand Alliance: The Publication of the Diary of Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to England, 1932-1943.
Stalin’s terrror and purges of the 1930s discouraged high Soviet officials from putting a pen to paper let alone keeping personal records ad above all diaires. A sole exception is the rare and unique diary, assidiously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London in 1932-43, which I unearthed in the archives of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow. It comprises over 1,600 pages of dense hand-written and typed entries, minutely and candidly depicting the activities, conversations, astute observations and thoughts of the ubiquitous Soviet ambassador in London. The work will be heavily annotated, juxtaposing his entries with his own private papers and correspondence, records left by his interlocutors and official reports of his encounters from the Russian British, French, American and Russian archives. The diary will be published by Yale University Press in three volumes and a single compendium volume. It will shed fresh light on the crucial period of appeasement, the negotiations leading to the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, the German Invasion of Russia and the forging of the Grand Alliance.