Abstract
The “Diary” of the Soviet diplomat I. M. Maisky, who worked in London for more than ten years first as a messenger, then as the Soviet ambassador to the UK, is one of the valuable sources for the interwar period and the Second World War. The “Diary” contains records of Maisky’s conversations with the leading British politicians and public figures and his own thoughts on a wide range of issues, including the problems of the British Empire. The author of the paper analyzes the views of the Tories on the prospects for the British Empire and the Commonwealth of the postwar period and reveals the plans for the reconstruction of the Empire and its transformation while maintaining the dominant position of Britain in the format of a new relationship with the dominions and colonies. The paper shows that within the British political establishment there was no consensus on the future of the empire and, as the materials of the “Diary of diplomat” evidence, the problem of the evolution of the Empire had a close relationship with other areas of foreign and domestic policy.
Highlights
Maisky, who worked in London for more than ten years first as a messenger, as the Soviet ambassador to the UK, is one of the valuable sources for the interwar period and the Second World War
The author of the paper analyzes the views of the Tories on the prospects for the British Empire and the Commonwealth of the postwar period and reveals the plans for the reconstruction of the Empire and its transformation while maintaining the dominant position of Britain in the format of a new relationship with the dominions and colonies
Vestnik Kemerovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta – Bulletin of Kemerovo State University, no
Summary
Информация об авторе: Хахалкина Елена Владимировна – кандидат исторических наук, доцент кафедры новой, новейшей истории и международных отношений исторического факультета Национального исследовательского Томского государственного университета, ekhakhalkina@mail.ru. Статья поступила в редколлегию 23.05.2016 г, принята к печати 24.06.2016 г.
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