Talleyrand. Tarle E.V.

Before readers is the famous book of an outstanding historian, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences E.V. Tarle, the hero of which was the French politician and diplomat of the late XVIII - early 19th century, who held high posts under several regimes, whose name was a householding to refer to unprincipled and political Conformism.

The book is written on a wide historical material with the inherent E.V. Tarle with high literary skill. In the portrait of Talleyrand drawn by the author, not only the personal selfish features of this person are revealed, but also the most typical general features of bourgeois diplomacy, its historical traditions. The genuine and large -day motives, methods and goals of the ruling classes of that time, the interests of which Talleyrand expressed, are shown.

The book includes the introduction of the author to the second edition (1948, the last lifetime edition), which was not included in In many subsequent reprints, as well as a detailed bibliography containing among the sources of the composition of Taleiran himself, his diplomatic correspondence and memoirs.

The book is recommended for the widest circle of readers interested in history, world politics and diplomacy. Professional historians, political scientists, social scholars, specialists in international relations.