Our Man in Moscow : : A Diplomat's Reflections on the Soviet Union / / Robert Ford.
"The world is large; Russia is great; death is inevitable." Almost forty years ago Robert A.D. Ford came across this sentence in a Russian school primer. It stays with him today as an example of the Russian psyche, a psyche that Ford is better equipped to explain than most. He is the only...
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Ford, Robert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Our Man in Moscow : A Diplomat's Reflections on the Soviet Union / Robert Ford. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019] ©1989 1 online resource (400 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: In Stalin's Shadow and After -- 1. Life under Stalin -- 2. The Post-Stalin Era and the Yugoslav Experience -- 3. The Impact of Khrushchev -- 4. Brezhnev Takes Control -- Part Two: The Russian Face to the West -- 5. Canada and Russia: An Uneasy Relationship -- 6. Groping toward Détente -- 7. Living with the KGB -- 8. The Struggle for Human Rights -- Part Three: Russia's Problems -- 9. Internal Problems: The Flawed Giant -- 10. The Dilemma of Eastern Europe -- 11. Russia and Asia: The Preoccupation with China -- 12. The Afghan Blunder and the Southern Approaches -- Part Four: The Rise and Fall of Détente -- 13. The Superpower Relationship: Vietnam and the Nixon Initiative -- 14. Peaceful Coexistence -- 15. The Fading of Détente -- 16. The End of the Brezhnev Era -- Postscript: The Gorbachev Generation -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "The world is large; Russia is great; death is inevitable." Almost forty years ago Robert A.D. Ford came across this sentence in a Russian school primer. It stays with him today as an example of the Russian psyche, a psyche that Ford is better equipped to explain than most. He is the only Western diplomat to have known and dealt with all the Soviet leaders from the end of the Second World War to the present: Stalin, Krushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev. As a poet and translator of Russian poetry, he also had a special entrée into the Soviet literary world. In this memoir he offers a unique perspective on post-war Soviet politics and Russian life. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Diplomats Canada Biography. Diplomats Soviet Union Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487595425 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487595425 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487595425.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: In Stalin's Shadow and After -- 1. Life under Stalin -- 2. The Post-Stalin Era and the Yugoslav Experience -- 3. The Impact of Khrushchev -- 4. Brezhnev Takes Control -- Part Two: The Russian Face to the West -- 5. Canada and Russia: An Uneasy Relationship -- 6. Groping toward Détente -- 7. Living with the KGB -- 8. The Struggle for Human Rights -- Part Three: Russia's Problems -- 9. Internal Problems: The Flawed Giant -- 10. The Dilemma of Eastern Europe -- 11. Russia and Asia: The Preoccupation with China -- 12. The Afghan Blunder and the Southern Approaches -- Part Four: The Rise and Fall of Détente -- 13. The Superpower Relationship: Vietnam and the Nixon Initiative -- 14. Peaceful Coexistence -- 15. The Fading of Détente -- 16. The End of the Brezhnev Era -- Postscript: The Gorbachev Generation -- Index |
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