Efimova Larisa. Soviet Policy towards Indonesia: Unknown Pages. Stalin and Indonesia

Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014. — 184 p.Efimova Larisa. Stalin and Indonesia: USSR policy towards Indonesia in 1945-1953. (In English)The present book is a result of the study of newly available documents from several recently opened Soviet archives. The present work is based on materials and documents from a number of Russian archives. The most important and interesting is a special Fond of Joseph Stalin, which is a part of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History. These previously unexamined materials from the archives of the former Soviet leader include telegrams sent by Stalin under the pseudonym “Filippov” to the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia, or PKI) leadership via Chinese Communist Party intermediaries in Beijing in the early 1950s as well as a personal Stalin’s letter to D.N. Aidit two weeks before Stalin died. Extraordinary interesting and important are Stalin’ comments to the draft programs of the Indonesian Communist Party during its revival after Madiun revolt and Party’s collapse. Very illuminating are the hitherto highly secret the Southeast Asia files of the Foreign Relations Department of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (All-Union Communist Party [Bolshevik], or AUCP [B]and later the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, for the period encompassing the Indonesian war of independence and the first years following it. These documents and materials are kept at the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History. Prior to 1990s descriptions of the USSR policy towards Indonesia both in Soviet and Western historical literature tended to be either one-sided or speculative and sometimes very brief. Now after archives have been opened we can base our research work on authentic documents, including classified ones. Time has come to find out the truth, to discover details and nuances of well-known facts and events.Soviet Post-War Plans of the World Order and Intentions toward Indonesia.
First signs of the Soviet attention toward Indonesia.
Towards the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the USSR and the Republic of Indonesia, 1947-1948.
Did the Soviet Union instruct Southeast Asian communists to revolt? New Russian evidence on the Calcutta Youth Conference of February 1948.
The Soviet approach to the Conference of the Youth of Southeast Asian Countries (Calcutta, February 1948).
Olga Chechetkina’s secret report.
Who gave instructions to the Indonesian Communist leader Musso in 1948?
New Evidence on the Establishment of Soviet-Indonesian Diplomatic Relations (1949-53).
Stalin and the Revival of the Communist Party of Indonesia.
Sialin’s Final Communication with the Indonesian Communists, 1951-1953.