THE ROLE OF THE DIPLOMAT V. L. KOPP IN THE FORMATION OF THE SOVIET-GERMAN SCIENTIFIC TIGHTS AND THE POLICY OF LABOUR MIGRATION FROM WEIMAR REPUBLIC TO THE RSFSR (1919 – 1921)

Abstract

The paper is based on the documents stored in the Archive of the Russian Foreign Policy, the Russian Archive of Social and Political History and the Russian Archive of Economy. A considerable part of the documents is published and introduced into scientific use for the first time. We prove the defining role of one of the first Bolshevik diplomats V. L. Kopp (the partly empowered RSFSR representative in theWeimarRepublic) in the formation of many-sided Soviet-German scientific tights in 1919 – 1921. Special attention is paid to his participation in establishing good working conditions for the specialists fromRussia; the author also notes the activities of this diplomat devoted to the realization of orders for new general and special literature from abroad received fromMoscow. The paper emphasizes Kopp‘s involvement into the establishment of Berlin Bureau for foreign science and technology, which was significant for the Russian scientists to renew the regular contacts with foreign colleagues under the conditions of global isolation. It is for the first time in historiography that the paper, basing on the archive sources, marks the role of V. Kopp in the implementation of Kremlin‘s project of organizing mass migration of workers and engineers from Weimar Germany to the RSFSR. But for all that the author pays special attention to failures and even scandals that occured during the realization of this plan.