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Boris Yefimovich Shtein (russian: Бори́с Ефи́мович Штейн 1892 – 14 March 1961)Profile of Boris Yefimovich Shtein
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. He was a member of many Soviet delegations in the 1920s and 1930s and served as a diplomat at the

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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 is also

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as Boris Stein or Boris Shteyn.

Life

Born at

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in 1892, Shtein graduated in 1917 at the Economic Department of the

Petrograd Polytechnical Institute Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, abbreviated as SPbPU (also, formerly "Saint Petersburg State Technical University", abbreviated as SPbSTU), is a Russian technical university located in Saint Petersburg. Other former names i ...

. He was a member of the

Menshevik Party The Mensheviks (russian: меньшевики́, from меньшинство 'minority') were one of the three dominant factions in the Russian socialist movement, the others being the Bolsheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries. The factions eme ...

from 1919 to 1920 and joined the Russian Communist Party (b) in 1926. From 1920, he worked in the People's Commisariat for Foreign Affairs in many positions such as head of commercial and political offices, assistant head of the economic and legal division, head of wormwood and the Baltic States, head of the department of Central Europe and head of the department of international affairs. From 1932 to 1934, Shtein was ambassador to Finland; he was succeeded by Eric Assmus. Shtein was the Soviet Ambassador to Italy from 1935 to 1939. From 1945, he was an adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Словари и энциклопедии на Академике: ШТЕЙН, Борис Ефимович
/ref>"Sketches on the History of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. 1802-2002", vol. 2,
p. 127
Shtein was a 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 Soviet delegation at the International Economic Conference in Geneva between 1928 and 1933. He was the secretary-general of the Soviet delegation to the Preparatory Commission in the

World Disarmament Conference The Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, generally known as the Geneva Conference or World Disarmament Conference, was an international conference of states held in Geneva, Switzerland, between February 1932 and November 193 ...

. He was a member of the Soviet delegation at the Assembly of the

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and was later an alternate member of the Soviet delegation at the first and the second sessions of the

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

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the ...

and the medal "For valiant work in the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a Theater (warfare), theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Polish Armed Forces in the East, Poland and other Allies of World War II, Allies, which encom ...

of 1941–1945". He died in

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on 14 March 1961.

References

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