The constant diplomat [[electronic resource] ] : Robert Ford in Moscow / / Charles A. Ruud

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458216403321
• Autore: Ruud Charles A. <1933->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-86651-6; 9786612866517; 0-7735-7604-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.710092
• Soggetti: Ambassadors - Canada; Electronic books.; Canada Foreign relations Soviet Union; Soviet Union Foreign relations Canada; Soviet Union History 1953-1985
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Map: Soviet Sites Visited by Robert Ford -- Ambassador in Training -- Thereza and Encounters with Russia -- Politics under Khrushchev -- Brezhnev, the Flawed Leader -- Soviets under Threat -- Trudeau's Opening -- Trudeau in Moscow -- Trudeau after the Peak -- Soviet Meetings -- Decline of the USSR -- Soviet Embassy, Ottawa -- Final Things -- Retrospective Look -- A. Soviet Province -- B. Early Travels With Ford, 1952-1953 -- C. Travels with Ford, 1954-1972 -- D. Travels with the Ambassador, 1978-1979.