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IN A PROJECT overseen by the Association of Russian Diplomats, Russian career diplomat minister counselor second class Yury Ivanov has published a book titled The First Soviet Diplomats: The People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR/USSR (1917-1941) [in Russian]* that is in effect a follow-up to his encyclopedic work published in 2021 about the last diplomats of the Russian Empire.1 There has been increasing public interest in Russia lately in the life and work of various diplomats, as evidenced by the appearance of several historical and biographical publications on the subject.
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