Maxim Maximovich Litvinov Biography and Timeline

Birth of Maxim Maximovich Litvinov

Birth of Maxim Maximovich Litvinov

SDP

Appointed Member of Social Democratic Party

Editor

Appointed Editor of the Social Democratic Labour Party's first legal newspaper, Novaya Zhizn (New Life) in St. Petersburg

Novaya Zhizn

Appointed Editor of the Social Democratic Labour Party's first legal newspaper, Novaya Zhizn (New Life) in St. Petersburg

Bolshevik Party

When the Russian Government began arresting Bolsheviks Litvinov left the country and spent the next ten years living in London, where he was active in the International Socialist

Exile of Maxim Maximovich Litvinov

When the Russian Government began arresting Bolsheviks Litvinov left the country and spent the next ten years living in London, where he was active in the International Socialist

International Socialism

When the Russian Government began arresting Bolsheviks Litvinov left the country and spent the next ten years living in London, where he was active in the International Socialist

International Socialist

When the Russian Government began arresting Bolsheviks Litvinov left the country and spent the next ten years living in London, where he was active in the International Socialist

After the October Revolution Litvinov is appointed by Vladimir Lenin as the

After the October Revolution Litvinov is appointed by Vladimir Lenin as the Soviet Governments representative in Britain

Arrest of Maxim Maximovich Litvinov

Signed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Latvia and Estonia, in which those countries promise not to use force to settle their disputes (this was seen as an Eastern Kellogg-Briand Pact)

Role range: 1917-1991

Bolshevik Party

Publishes the English tract The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning, distributed by the British Socialist Party

Role range: 1917-1991

English tract The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise

Publishes the English tract The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning, distributed by the British Socialist Party

Role range: 1917-1991

the English tract The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise

Publishes the English tract The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning, distributed by the British Socialist Party

Role range: 1917-1991

Pact between Soviet Union and France

Visits Barthou in Geneva to discuss a Soviet-French pact

Role range: 1917-1991

Visit to Geneva

Visits Barthou in Geneva to discuss a Soviet-French pact

Role range: 1917-1991

League of Nations

Negotiates Russian entry into the League of Nations with a permanent seat

Pact between Kellogg-Briand Signatory Nations

Signs the Kellog Pact

Role range: 1917-1991

Litvinov Protocol

Signed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Latvia and Estonia, in which those countries promise not to use force to settle their disputes (this was seen as an Eastern Kellogg-Briand Pact)

Role range: 1917-1991

Litvinov Protocol

Litvinov Protocol between Russia, Estonia, Latvia & Poland renouncing war

Role range: 1917-1991

Bratislava Declaration

Promises to protect socialism in Czechoslovakia, to keep the Bratislava Declaration, to denounce the 14th Party Congress and its resolutions, to restrain critical Czechoslovak media and to reject interference in the Eastern Bloc

Role range: 1917-1991

Moscow Protocol

Promises to protect socialism in Czechoslovakia, to keep the Bratislava Declaration, to denounce the 14th Party Congress and its resolutions, to restrain critical Czechoslovak media and to reject interference in the Eastern Bloc

Role range: 1917-1991

Commissar

Appointed Commissar for Foreign Affairs, 1st term. A firm believer in collective security, Litvinov works very hard to form a closer relationship with France and Britain

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Commissar

Appointed Commissar for Foreign Affairs, 2nd term

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Successfully persuades the United States to officially recognize the Soviet Government

Successfully persuades the United States to officially recognize the Soviet Government

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

League of Nations

Litvinov also actively facilitates the acceptance of the USSR into the League of Nations where he represents his country from 1934-1938

Role range: 1930-1939

League of Nations

Russia joins the League of Nations

Role range: 1930-1939

USSR Admission

Represents the USSR as it enters the League.

Role range: 1930-1939

International Agreement at Moscow

Agrees a mutually defensive pact with France

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Collective Security

Promotes collective security after the USSR enters the League.

Role range: 1930-1939

Conference of Nyon

Nine powers agree Britain & France will patrol Mediterranean trade. Eastern countries will patrol their own shores. Britain will provide 60 destroyers in the Meditteranean

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Conference of Nyon

The Nyon powers sign their apporoval of their decisions

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Alliance Maxim Maximovich Litvinov and Czech

Will help Czech against Germany if Romania & Poland allow passage of Russian troops

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Will help Czech against Germany if Romania & Poland allow passage of

Will help Czech against Germany if Romania & Poland allow passage of Russian troops. Rumania & Poland refuse to allow passage of Russian troops

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

International Conference at Moscow

Proposes staff talks & a conference to condemn German aggression. Proposes staff talks & a conference to allow Russian troop access to Czech

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Alliance Declares Russias commitment to and France and Czech

Declares Russias commitment to support its Treaty obligations with France & Czech

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Treaty Negotiations at Geneva

Declares Russias commitment to support its Treaty obligations with France & Czech

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Treaty of Munich

Litvinov criticized the exclusion of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia from the Munich conference.

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Anschluss

Proposes a 4 power conference to discuss the anschluss, turned down by Britain. Delivers a report warning Russia about anshcluss between Germany & Austria

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Capital

"with the preservation of the capitalist system a long & enduring peace is impossible"

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939

Government Report

Delivers a report warning Russia about anshcluss between Germany & Austria

Role range: 1917-1991 – 1930-1939