Abstract

Recently released files from the collection (fond) of Josif Stalin's papers in the former Central Party Archive in Moscow have shed new light on the development of postwar Soviet diplomatic historiography, particularly in relation to Stalin's personal role in framing the official rationale and justification for the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939-1941. This episode gave rise to a policy of archive-based publications in the mid-1950s and provided the foundation for later Soviet (and post-Soviet) treatments of the diplomatic history of the Second World War and other topics.

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