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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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