Boris Yefimovich Shtein ( 1892, Aleksandrovsk — 1961, Moscow

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) was a Soviet

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 diplomat

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. He was a member in many Soviet delegations 1920s and 1930s, and served as a diplomat at the United Nations

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 in the 1940s. In later life Shtein dedicated himself to academic work as a professor and writer on the history of Soviet foreign relations. His name has also transliterated

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 as Boris Stein or Boris Shteyn.

Career

Shtein graduated in 1917 from the Economic Department of the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute. From 1920 he worked in the People's Commisariat for Foreign Affiars in many positions such as a head of commercial and political offices, the Assistant Head of Economic and Legal Division, Head of wormwood and the Baltic States, head of the department of Central Europe, the head of the department of international affairs. From 1932 to 1934 Shtein was an ambassador in Finland

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 and he was succeeded by Eric Assmus

Eric Assmus

Eric Assmus was a Soviet diplomat. He had German descent.Preceded by Boris Shtein, Assmus was an ambassador in Finland from 1935 to 1937. He contacted the Finnish prime minister Toivo Kivimäki on 15 June 1935 stating that "in case of a military conflict in the Mainland Europe, the Soviet Union...

. Shtein was the plenipotentiary Soviet ambassador to Italy

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 from 1935 to 1939. Since 1945 he was an adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Shtein was secretary of the Soviet delegation at the Genoa Conference in 1922 and the Secretary-General of the Soviet delegation at the Hague Conference in 1927. Also he was the Secretary-General of the USSR delegation at the International Economic Conference in Geneva between 1928 and 1933. Stein was a Secretary General of the USSR delegation to the Preparatory Commission in the World Disarmament Conference

World Disarmament Conference

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. Shtein was a member delegation of the USSR at the Assembly of the League of Nations

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, and later he was an alternate member of the delegation of the USSR at the first and second sessions of the UN General Assembly.

Shtein received doctorate in historical sciences in 1943. From 1936 to 1938 Shtein was a member of the Central Executive Committee

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. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour

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 and the medal "For valiant work in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945."