IN THE ORIGINS OF INDO-SOVIET APPROACH: DOCUMENTS OF THREE MOSCOW MEETINGS IN 1950

Documents of National Archives of Republic of India (funds of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ministry of Internal Affairs) are published for the first time. They were found during field trips to India. The documents are protocols of three meetings of Indian ambassador in Moscow S. Radhakrishnan with the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR I.V. Stalin and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR A.Y. Vyshinsky. The published materials are supplied by scientific comments. The documents help to understand the counteractions in double-sided relations of India and the USSR better. The possibilities of finding compromises are highlighted. The peculiarities of diplomatic style and polemic methods of Soviet and Indian politics are revealed and the position of I.V. Stalin concerning Indian national elite is reviewed. It is shown how difficult were the Soviet-Indian diplomatic relations build up. It is marked, that the growth of communist movement in region and in India made the first Prime Minister of independent India J. Nehru to follow the pro-Western course in foreign policy. The decision of Indian government to join the British Commonwealth of Nations is explained by the same thing. The attention is paid to the most important for the USSR Karshmir question. The tension in Soviet-Indian relations were the evidence of Indian documents of three meetings of higher Soviet government with the ambassador of India in Moscow in 1950. The literal content and style of the original are kept in the documents during translation from Russian into English.

USSR, India, I.V. Stalin, S. Radhakrishnan, A.Y. Vyshinsky, U. N. O, China, Korean war