- PII
- S013038640009146-8-
- DOI
- 10.31857/S013038640009146-8
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 3
- Pages
- 80-106
- Abstract
The article is focused on the problem of resolving the issue of financial and economic recovery of Europe and Russia at the Genoa Conference of 1922, determining its role in the formation of Soviet foreign policy. The author shows a significant change in the foreign policy of the RSFSR, associated with the decision of the Politburo to prioritize the normalization of relations with European powers in order to restore the economy of the country destroyed by war and intervention.
On the basis of a significant number of published and archival sources (decisions and guidance letters of the Politburo, the reports of the Soviet delegation of the Politburo and the NKID Collegium, records of interviews, transcripts of meetings, delegations and committees of the conference and many others), as well as the memoirs and papers of participants of the forum, the article details the preparations for the conference made by the Soviet State with top leadership of the country and a large number of government agencies taking part in the process, development of objectives, strategies, and tactics of the Soviet delegation, search for a platform for a possible compromise. Much attention is paid to both the course of the conference itself and the activities of diplomats and experts on the sidelines and informal meetings of heads of delegations, the position of the Western powers in connection with the solution of the main and most pressing issue of debts and counter-claims of the Soviet State and the reasons that led to the premature termination of the conference in Genoa and the transfer to the experts’ conference in the Hague of unresolved problems of debts, counter-claims and ways of compensating the damage suffered by former foreign owners from nationalization.
The materials show that the Genoa Conference was a new stage in the formation of the foreign policy of the Soviet State reflecting changes of internal conditions — the introduction of a new economic policy and a new policy of transition from opposition to the capitalist world to a peaceful coexistence with it.
- Keywords
- Foreign policy of the USSR, international conferences, Genoa conference, economic reconstruction of Europe, Cannes resolution, Rapallo Treaty
- Date of publication
- 19.06.2020
- Year of publication
- 2020
- Number of purchasers
- 38
- Views
- 4910
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