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NOTE FROM CHICHERIN TO LOCKHART, BRITISH AGENT IN MOSCOW,
ON THE BRITISH LANDING AT MURMANSK
27 June 1918
Kluchnikov & Sabanin, II, p. 47 (dated 28,June)
At the desire of the working people, conscious of the identity and solidarity of their interests with those of the working masses of the entire world, the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic withdrew from...
NOTE FROM CHICHERIN TO THE ALLIED REPRESENTATIVES ON THE LANDING AT VLADIVOSTOK
6 April 1918
Correspondance diplomatique, P- 3
The People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs draws your attention to the statement made to you by the Acting People's Commissar concerning the deeply painful impression made in Russia by the landing at Vladivostok of Japanese and English troops,...
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REPLY FROM TROTSKY, COMMISSAR FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TO THE STATEMENT OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY ON THE SOVIET PEACE PROPOSALS
30 November 1917
Trotsky, iii, 2, p. 183
We consider it necessary to make the following explanation, on the basis of information received by us in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, concerning the statement issued by the British Embassy.
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Leon Trotsky, Publication of the Secret Treaties. November 22, 1917
People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs Trotsky seized the secret treaties and papers of the Tsarist and Provisional governments to expose their complicity in the bloody war whose deserters had been strong supporters of the Bolsheviks.
Original Source: Izvestiya, No. 221, 23 November 1917.
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Britain and France concluded a secret agreement in May 1916 known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, after the British and French representatives who negotiated it. The agreement related to the Arab territory in the Ottoman Empire which Britain and France aimed to dismember after World War One and divide the vast territory ruled by the Turks between them, as shown in the map. Russia was made privy...