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The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact
Contemporary Review, June, 2004
The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact: A Diplomatic History, 1941-1945. Boris Slavinsky (Geoffrey Jukes, translator). Routledge. [pounds sterling]65.00. xxiii + 227 pages. ISBN 0-415-32292-8. The Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact of 1941 was a vital part of the history of World War II. The pact allowed Stalin to mass his forces on the western front to counter Hitler's invasion.
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The author of this study was part of the Soviet Institute of History and then a Fellow of the Institute of World Economics and International Relations in the Russian Academy of Sciences. The book is not only based on secret material in the Soviet archives but on conversations with one of the most important officials in the Soviet foreign ministry and with the grandson of the USSR's Ambassador to Tokyo during the war. The author, who sadly died in 2002, has given us a unique and unparalleled insight into the diplomacy and politics of both the USSR and Japan during this period and shows the part which the famous pact played in the two countries' manoeuvrings, both how it came into being and how it was violated by Stalin. The translator has provided many valuable notes to the original 1995 Russian text and has also added a chapter on those materials that became available only after the book had been published in Russia.
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