📅 26 Februari 1921
Iran and Soviet Russia signed a friendship treaty in Moscow. Soviet Russia repudiated the former tsarist policy and unequal agreements, marking a formal break with imperial practice while leaving...
📅 1 Oktober 1927
Iran and the USSR signed a guarantee and neutrality treaty. Its protocols preserved the 1921 treaty’s intervention exception, qualifying the promise against introducing troops into the other state.
📅 26 Februari 1921
The Soviet-Persian Treaty of Friendship repudiated many privileges and concessions obtained by the Russian Empire in Persia and declared a new basis for relations. This anti-imperial gesture...
📅 26 Mei 1921
Britain and Soviet Russia signed a trade agreement that reduced the risk of renewed war and opened commercial relations. The agreement did not amount to full diplomatic recognition, but it marked...
📅 13 Oktober 1921
Turkey and the Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia signed the Treaty of Kars, settling borders in the South Caucasus. The agreement involved regional governments but was shaped by...
📅 16 April 1922
Germany and Soviet Russia signed the Treaty of Rapallo, renouncing claims and restoring diplomatic relations. The agreement challenged the isolation of both states after the First World War. It also...
📅 1 Februari 1924
The British government formally recognized the USSR, opening diplomatic relations after years of non-recognition and intermittent trade. Recognition reflected practical interests and the postwar...
📅 1 Februari 1922
Lenin instructed diplomats to seek trade and recognition while challenging imperial powers’ demands and the postwar settlement. His notes show foreign policy operating between revolutionary rhetoric...
📅 16 April 1922
Soviet Russia and Germany signed a treaty restoring diplomatic relations and renouncing mutual claims during the Genoa Conference. Lenin backed diplomatic engagement despite both governments’...
📅 26 Februari 1921
The Moscow treaty renounced a range of Tsarist-era privileges and debts and recognized Persian sovereignty. Article 6 also reserved a Soviet right to intervene if a third power used Iranian...
