About the book: 2010 / The book contains documents from the foundations of I. Stalin and W. Churchill, stored in the archives of Russia, Great Britain and the USA, revealing the diplomatic and political history of the anti-Hitler coalition. Based on official records of meetings, conversations and discussions between Stalin and Churchill, in connection with the events of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War, Soviet-British relations are examined, the search for compromise by two “irreconcilable allies”, its possibilities and limits, the importance of the art of negotiation and personal relationships in this. The book by Russian international historian and political scientist Oleg Aleksandrovich Rzheshevsky reveals a dramatic picture of the diplomatic struggle, the search by Stalin and Churchill for agreed solutions in the fight against a common enemy - Nazi Germany and its satellites. Documents from the archives of Russia, Great Britain and the USA, a significant part of which are published for the first time, and the author's the text is supplemented with fragments of memoirs of participants in the meetings of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, including the memoirs of the hereditary intelligence officer Z. V. Zarubina about the first meeting of the “Big Three” at the Tehran Conference in 1943.