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The author highlights some tragic aspects of the Russian diplomacy history after the October Revolution of 1917. The article provides an acute insight into the different periods in which the Soviet diplomatic service had to execute its foreign policy, but at the same time suffered severe losses due to Stalinist persecution. The attention is focused on four PeopleВ’s Commissars for Foreign Affairs: Lev Trotsky, Georgy Chicherin, Maxim Litvinov and Viacheslav Molotov. Particular tragic was the life of Lev Trotsky, s...