Publisher's Synopsis
In this volume, Hugh Phillips provides a biography of Maxim Litvinov, a Bolshevik revolutionary who began his professional life running guns into Tsarist Russia and eventually became the leading Soviet diplomat in the turbulent 1930s. He consistently advocated a policy of co-operation with the Western democracies in spite of Stalin's hostile attitude toward the West. When he passed away in 1951, Litvinov left behind a political legacy that lay dormant until its recent revival by Mikhail Gorbachev.;The book is based on extensive research in the Soviet Union and the West, including previously unavailable archives and interviews with Litvinov's friends and family.
