The history of the formation of relations between the USSR and the developed capitalist countries, and in particular with Great Britain - one of the leading participants in the intervention against Soviet Russia in 1917-1920, which then became the first of the major powers to negotiate and recognize Soviet Russia - is of undoubted interest. Even today, an unbiased observer can learn a lot from the history of such a turn.
Questions of the formation of Anglo-Soviet relations and England's foreign policy in the period of their origin are given a significant place in Soviet historiography .1 The 60s, however, were marked by the emergence of a complex of new sources on this topic. By the beginning of the 60s, the first volumes of the monumental publication of documents on the foreign policy of the USSR were published in our country2. By 1967, 15 volumes of the first series of documents on English foreign policy covering the period from 1919 to 19233 were published in England, and in 1966 and later in England, access was opened to extensive state archives and private collections of documents dating back to the period after the First World War4 . Among the works that use documents from the private archives of prominent British political figures, there is a three-volume study by R. Ullman (who had access to the extensive archives of D. Lloyd George, E. Bonar Law, O. Chamberlain, Lord Milner, etc.) and a book by M. Gilbert, in whose exclusive use the richest personal archive of W. Churchill was provided. 5 In general, these materials provide a much fuller picture of the UK's policy towards Co-
1 From the works of recent years, see: "History of foreign Policy of the USSR". In 2 vols. Vol. I. 1917-1945. M. 1976; "History of Diplomacy". Vol. III. M. 1965; K. B. Vinogradov. David Lloyd George. M. 1970; A. N. Krasilnikov. The USSR and England. Soviet-British relations in 1917-1967, Moscow, 1967; V. G. Trukhanovsky. Winston Churchill (political biography), Moscow, 1968.
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