CONTENTS Chronological listing of treaties and subsequent Soviet actions in contra- Chronological record of Soviet Russia's diplomatic relations.. XII Page REFERENCES* Department of State Publication 4245-General Foreign Policy Hearings, Strategy and Tactics of World Communism, pt. 5, Hearings, Strategy and Tactics of World Communism, Senate World War II International Agreements-Foreign Affairs Com- U. N. World, November 1950. The New Leader, May 3, 1954. Trends in Russian Foreign Policy Since World War I, Legislative Background Information on the Soviet Union in International A Decade of American Foreign Policy, Senate Committee on The Soviet Union in International Relations, Foreign Affairs. Establishment of Diplomatic Relations With the U. S. S. R., 81st Congressional Record, 74th Congress, May 14, 1935, Representa- Francis O. Wilcox, and Thorsten V. Kalijarvi, Recent American State Department Treaty Rooms. British Foreign Series Papers. 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Soviet Treaty Series, compiled and edited by Leonard Shapiro, The Soviet Empire: Prison House of Nations and Races, pre- I Saw Poland Betrayed, Arthur Bliss Lane, The Bobbs-Merrill SOVIET POLITICAL AGREEMENTS AND RESULTS CHRONOLOGY (Soviet actions relating to various agreements is shown in bold face following the agreement affected) (Key to sources of references in column 1 is found on p. xIII) 56. pp. 40, 41..... 56, p. 25 I Third Interim Report. 1917, Nov. 15... The Council of People's Commissars of the R. S. F. S. R.2 issued a declaration on the "Rights of the Peoples of Russia to Self-Determination.' This declaration offered the nationalities in Russia "equality and sovereignty" and the "right to free self-determination *** even to the point of separating and forming independent states. * * * 1922, Dec. 30.......... Through the Treaty of Union, the sons Despite this declaration, mass executions and deportations have taken place in the "so-called" Soviet Socialist Republics. The total numbers are impossible to calculate. In the Ukraine 11,000 perwere executed in Vinnitsa alone during 1937-38, and buried in 38 mass graves. There were 18 similar instances. An estimated 200,000 Ukrainians were executed in just one year. Byelorussia lost an estimated 4,500,000 people through deportations and executions between 1921 and 1941. An estimated 60,000 persons were executed in Georgia during the years 1921 and 1942. In the Caucasus as a whole 422,000 persons were either deported to Siberia or executed during the 1930's. Purges and executions also occurred in the Moslem area of the Soviet Union and in the Soviet Far East. Purges and executions were very severe among the Soviet Jewry, especially among the cultural leaders. In Riga alone, 60,000 Jews were executed after Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. R. S. F. S. R.-Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. 1 Rights of the Peoples of Russia, 1917, Nov. 15-Continued Mass deportations have taken place throughout the Soviet Union. These were especially severe in the Balkan nations during the war years and continued until 1950. As Khrushchev admitted in his speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: "All the more monstrous are the acts, initiated by Stalin, which are gross violations of the basic Leninist principles of the nationalities policy of the Soviet state. We refer to the mass deportations from their native territory of whole nations, including all [their] Communists and Young Communists, without any exception; this deportation action was not dictated by any military considerations." (As cited.) The R. S. F. S. R. recognized the Ukrainian National Republic. Trotsky's Red army invaded Ukrainia to commit the first act of Russian Communist aggression against foreign states and nations. The R. S. F. S. R. annulled its recognition of Ukrainia. The R. S. F. S. R. officially recog nized the independence of Finland. A pact of mutual assistance and friendship was concluded by a puppet Finnish Government entitled "the People's Government of Finland and the U. S. S. R." This followed the invasion of Finland by Soviet armed troops on November 30, 1939. This Finnish Government was headed by Kuusinen, former Finnish Communist and a member of the executive committee of the Comintern. The "Kuusinen" Government was short lived. The treaty included the ceding of territory extending across the Isthmus of Karelia to the U. S. S. R. and the lease of the port of Hanko for 20 years. The Central Powers-Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey-and the R. S. F. S. R. signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. R. S. F. S. R. agreed (1) to give up Poland, Courland, and Lithuania and to allow them to be reorganized by the Central Powers, (2) to cede Ardahan, Kars and Batum in the Caucasus to Turkey, (3) to evacuate Estonia, Livonia, the Ukraine and Finland, (4) to discontinue Bolshevik propaganda in the territories ceded. The Eighth Interim Report. |