Riding at the tiger. Rudnitsky A.

The book of the historian and diplomat Artem Rudnitsky is devoted to Soviet -German relations in the pre -war period, more precisely, the diplomatic “kitchen”, and is based primarily on a unique selection of archival documents: official correspondence, encryption, official notes, memoranda and private letters.

The time of a large foreign policy game coincides with the dramatic events within the country and the diplomatic department. The high -professional personnel prepared by Chicherin and Litvinov are replaced by other people: ideologically verified, but often poorly versed in the mechanisms and practice of the diplomatic service. Many of the previous diplomats were shot or sent to the camps.

documents collected by the author, excite the imagination of no less than an adventure novel. They return us at a time when the story was on the forking roads and could go in different ways, the winding paths of politicians and diplomacy, unexpected twists and turns, the smallest details, on which experienced professionals “read” the position of the opposite side - all this is a fascinating and informative subject this book.