List of Tables List of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations Note on transliteration and dates Introduction Before The Bolsheviks: The Last Years of Tsarist Diplomacy 'In Diplomacy Such a Sharp Revolution as in Internal Affairs is of Course Impossible': The Soviet Takeover of Diplomacy Change and Compromise: Soviet Diplomacy in the 1920s Soviet Diplomacy in the 1930s Conclusion Appendix - Biographical Details Notes Select Bibliography Index