Maxim Litvinoff

New York: L. B. Fischer. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1943. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good condition. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a newspaper clipping on Litvinoff pasted down on the front pastedown page. The front endpaper has noticeable toning. The price clipped dust jacket has a couple of small edge nicks and tears and one small chip missing from the top spine end. "Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, born Meir Henoch Wallach-Finkelstein (17 July 1876 – 31 December 1951) was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet Bolshevik politician. A strong advocate of diplomatic agreements leading towards disarmament, Litvinov was influential in making the Soviet Union a party to the Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928 and was chiefly responsible in 1929 for adoption of the so-called Litvinov Protocol, a multilateral agreement bringing Kellogg-Briand into force between the Soviet Union and a number of neighboring states. In 1930, Litvinov was named as People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, the top-ranking diplomatic position in the Soviet state. During the subsequent decade, Litvinov emerged as a leading voice for the official Soviet policy of collective security with the Western powers against Nazi Germany." (from Wikipedia) .