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two countries.
The collection naturally lays a major emphasis on the two most important diplomatic forums of
1943, i.e., the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers and the Tehran Conference of the heads
of state of the Big Three.
The readers will also find in the collection a lot of new documents on the USSR's relations with
other countries - Japan, China, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan - records of conversations, am-
bassadors' reports, diplomatic notes, etc.
Finally, we would also like to give credit to a high professional culture of those who worked on
this publication. The documents have exemplary scientific annotations, convenient lists of doc-
uments grouped according to various types and forms, as well as a detailed name index. The col-
lection's contents are closely integrated with the bulk of documents relating to the Allies' relations
during World War II stored at the Foreign Policy Archives of the Russian Federation, which have
been posted at the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the authors have also pro-
vided useful links to the documents not published in this edition, thus allowing the readers to
find them on the afore-mentioned site.
This fundamental publication has been a major contribution to studying the diplomatic history
of the great war, and it will stay high in demand. The materials in the collection will be of utmost
historical interest, but not only that. The military-political alliance of the Big Three during the
Great Patriotic War and World War II is, probably, a major asset in our uneasy relationship with
the West. The experience and lessons of such cooperation continue to be relevant.
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