Geoffrey Roberts

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243 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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You know, capitalist America, communist Russia, dictatorship, a liberal democracy and so on.

She humanizes them.

She presents a picture of both Stalin and Churchill, which I don't think you'll find anywhere else.

At least I can't find it yet.

Yeah, so it's very much a human personal and sometimes quite quirky portrait.

So there's a lot of insight there.

I mean, OK, so you said earlier, I'm a Soviet history specialist.

OK, so what drew me, what interested me about her letters when I first encountered them in 2001 was the letters themselves.

that she wrote for Moscow, yeah?

And the picture she drew of life in Russia during the war, what's going on in diplomacy in Moscow, right?

And in terms of the interactions at the top of Moscow.

That's what interested me.

And I learned so much from reading her letters about what was going on in those relationships.

It's mainly the humanization of personal portrait, but there's also lots of kind of like political kind of,

hints and astute observations that you make, which can inform your view of the total history of this period.

Okay, she's writing to her family, yeah.

Also, she's writing to Pamela Harriman.

Pamela Churchill at the time.

When she goes to Moscow, she has a separate correspondence with Pamela.

And Pamela herself writes many, many letters to her and Avril while they're in Moscow.

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