ALASTAIR KOCHO-WILLIAMS completed his PhD at the University of Manchester, UK, in 2006. He was Lecturer in Soviet History at the University of Leeds, UK, before taking up the post of Senior Lecturer in International and Soviet History at the University of the West of England, UK.

• 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