Soviet Russia at conferences in Genoa and Hague 1922: a view from the Kremlin. Nastrova N.E.

The monograph is devoted to the study on the new archival material of the little -known aspects of the diplomatic background and the history of the Genoese and Hague conferences of 1922, which became a serious attempt to normalize political and economic relations between Soviet Russia and the countries of the West after the First World War. The tense preparatory work was shown to develop the tactics of the Russian delegation, its program, in particular, the search for borders of possible concessions from Russia on the requirements of European powers as the conditions for providing it with financial assistance; The essence of the tactical disagreements of the Western powers in the assessment of the "Russian question" was conveyed. The recognition of the debts of the pre -war and wartime, Soviet Russia, dependent on the provision of loans; The development of economic relations due to fundamental political and economic concessions, on which the West insisted, was unacceptable for her. Despite the fact that it was not possible to solve the Russian problem either in Genoa or the Hague, these conferences were not barren for Russia; For the first time after the revolution, she returned to the ranks of the subjects of world politics. For historians, teachers of social sciences, a wide range of readers.