Stafford Cripps in Moscow 1940-1942: Diaries and Papers.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Stafford Cripps in Moscow 1940-1942: Diaries and Papers, edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky. Portland, Oregon, Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 2007. x, 264 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $30.00 US (paper).

On the eve of World War II, Sir Stafford Cripps was a successful barrister and Labour backbencher who fell out with his party for advocating a broad united front against Nazi Germany. He was expelled from the Labour Party in 1939. As Gabriel Gorodetsky points out in his useful introduction, Cripps found himself aligned with Winston Churchill, who favoured an alliance with the ...

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