18 June 2020
June 17th, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations revealed the winners of its prizes for the history of US foreign policy and international relations. The Link-Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing was awarded to the Honored Scientist of Russia, Honorary Professor of MGIMO V.Pechatnov and to the Fellow of the British Academy, Professor from Cambridge University David Reynolds for their publication “The Kremlin Letters. Stalin's wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt”(Yale University Press, 2018).
This prestigious prize is awarded once every two years for "outstanding collections of primary source materials in the fields of international or diplomatic history, especially those distinguished by the inclusion of commentary designed to interpret the documents and set them within their historical context”. In its comments on the book, the Society commends the thorough work done on the “contextualization of correspondence among Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill: weaving their interpretations and introductions together with the primary sources, to create a book which is best read cover-to-cover, rather than used strictly as a reference collection of documents”. This joint publication of Russian and British historians, written with the assistance of MGIMO Associate Professor I.Magadeev and O.Kucherenko, received positive feedback in international academic circles, was translated into foreign languages and distributed in more than five hundred libraries globally.
