Mission to Moscow - Joseph E. Davies

by JOSEPH E. DAVIES
united states ambassador to the soviet union from 1936 to 1938

A record of confidential dispatches to the State Department, official and personal correspondence, current diary and journal entries, including notes and comment up to October, 1941

	foreword
	author s note
I.	The Mission Begins: November 16, 1936-March 30, 1937
II.	Washington and Points East: April 5-June 20, 1937
III.	The Purge Hits the Red Army: June 25-July 28, 1937
IV.	Russia Through Her Neighbours’ Eyes: July 28-December 24, 1937
V.	The Purge Hits Bukharin: January 15-March 17, 1938
VI.	Moscow Hears the Drums of War: March 14-April 1, 1938
VII.	Climax of the Mission: April 6- July 5, 1938
VII.	Brief on the Facts: June 6, 1938
IX.	Harvest of the Mission: July 6, 1938-October 28, 1941
	chronology
	appendix
	Supplementary Report on the Stalin Conversation
	Footnote on Sweden
	The Baltic States Prepare for the Worst
	Expert Report on Russia’s War Industries
	Inventory on Russia’s Richest Region
	Memorandum on Soviet Industrial Regions
	The Port of Odessa
	Bread-baking in Odessa
	The Port of Batum
	The Batum Oil Refinery
	The Soviet Atlantic City
	Mountains of Cement at Novorossiisk
	The Winery at Yalta
	Recreation Camps at Yalta
	Collective Farms in the Ukraine
	Documentation on the Démarche that Failed
	Documents on Debt and Trade Talks
	The Ambassador’s Farewell