Manchuria

J. Stalin’s speech at a meeting of senior Red Army commanders discussing the results the ‘Winter War’

17 April 1940

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 1124, ff. 8–43.

Deciphered shorthand transcript

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army B. Shaposhnikov to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party about the basic principles of the strategic deployment of the Soviet Armed Forces in the West and East in 1940 and 1941

[July 1940]

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 16а, ser. 2951, fold. 239, ff. 1–37.

Original

Note of Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov ‘Some Directives for the Berlin Trip’

9 November 1940

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 82, ser. 2, fold. 1161, ff. 147–155.

Original. Autograph of V. Molotov

Transcript of a conversation between J. Stalin and Japanese Foreign Minister Y. Matsuoka about the conditions for the signature of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact

12 April 1941

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 404, ff. 102–111.

Original. Corrections and decision – autograph of J. Stalin

Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact (with an attached declaration of the respect of the territorial integrity and inviolability of Manchoukuo and the Mongolian People’s Republic)

13 April 1941

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

[Coll. 3а – Japan, fold. 113], ff. 1–4.

Originals

From the report of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Trade for 1940: on the development of Soviet foreign trade during the war in Europe, the expansion of re-export and transit operations, and relations with the USSR’s main trade partners – Germany and the USA

14 June 1941

Russian State Archive of Economy

Coll. 413, ser. 12, fold. 4178, ff. 1–65.

Copy