France

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to J. Stalin about German aerial bombardments of cities and military and civil targets on Polish territory

2 September 1939

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History

Coll. 3, ser. 50, fold. 410, ff. 5–8.

Original

Cipher telegram from Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in France Y. Surits to the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about France’s declaration of war on Germany

4 September 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 302, fold. 2091, ff. 26–27.

Certified copy

French soldiers show British servicemen around Paris

25 September 1939

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Ser. 1, album 541, № 232489.

Photograph

British and French soldiers in Paris

25 September 1939

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Ser. 1, album 541, № 232486.

Photograph

Report from the Near Eastern Office of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs to the Secretariat of the Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov regarding the prospects of Soviet-Turkish talks about a mutual assistance treaty

[Before 27 September 1939]

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 06, ser. 1, box 17, fold. 177, ff. 85–87.

Copy

Report from the Near Eastern and Legal Offices of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs on neutralizing the articles of the Convention Regarding the Regime of the Black Sea Straits of 20 July 1936 that were disadvantageous to the USSR

[September 1939]

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 06, ser. 1, box 17, fold. 177, ff. 81–83.

Copy

Transcript of a conversation between J. Stalin, Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov, and Turkish Foreign Minister S. Saracoglu about the draft Anglo-French-Turkish Mutual Assistance Treaty and the possibility of signing a Soviet-Turkish mutual assistance treaty

1 October 1939

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 388, ff. 14–32.

Original

Members of the Polish government in exile

Paris. 10 October 1939

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Ser. 1, album 4121, № 15.

Photograph

Cipher telegram from Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Great Britain I. Maisky to the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about Prime Minister N. Chamberlain’s speech in British Parliament and the plans of the Franco-British allies for turning the war in Europe into a protracted siege of Germany

12 October 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 300, fold. 2078, ff. 156–158.

Certified copy

British and American journalists visiting a fort on the Maginot Line

12 October 1939

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Ser. 1, album 6639, № 64.

Photograph