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Diplomatic & State Papers: Russia & the Soviet Union

Primary sources regarding consular activities and colonialism

Russia

Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, Russia and the Soviet Union: Part 1, Russia: From Czar to Commissars, 1914-1918
Russia during the last years of Czarist rule, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the opening period of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the Russian Civil War.
Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, Russia and the Soviet Union: Part 2, The Soviet Union, Section A: 1919-1924
Covers middle and later phases of the Russian Civil War and the establishment of the Soviet Union in December 1922, as well as the beginning of Josef Stalin's rise to power after Vladimir Lenin's death in January 1924.
Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, Russia and the Soviet Union: Part 2, The Soviet Union, Section B: 1925-1935
Contains significant material on political, economic, and social affairs and foreign relations during the early years of the Soviet Union.
Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, Russia and the Soviet Union: Part 3, The Soviet Union: 1934-1941
Significant material from 1934 up to (but not including) the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, and covering the years of Stalin's Great Purge during the years 1934-1940.
British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part I, From the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War. Series E, Asia, 1860-1914
British documents on foreign affairs : reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part II, From the First to the Second World War. Series E, Asia, 1914-1939

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