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Russian Communist Leader
LITVINOV, Maksim M. (1876-1951). Russian Communist leader, most colorful and controversial of the major European diplomats of the 1930’s. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (1898). He was imprisoned, escaped Russia in 1902 and settled in France. In 1903 he joined the Bolsheviks under Lenin and was deported from France for smuggling arms into Russia. Stalin dismissed Litvinov in May 1939 believing that as a Jew he would be unable to reach an agreement with Nazi Germany. From Dec.41 to July 43 he was the Soviet Ambassador in Washington. Uncommon autograph, in ink on a card created for collecting autographsh....................SOLD
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