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Autore |
Ruud Charles A. <1933-> |
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The constant diplomat : Robert Ford in Moscow / / Charles A. Ruud |
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009 |
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0-7735-8432-3 |
1-282-86651-6 |
9786612866517 |
0-7735-7604-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ambassadors - Canada |
Canada Foreign relations Soviet Union |
Soviet Union Foreign relations Canada |
Soviet Union History 1953-1985 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Robert A.D. Ford had a distinguished diplomatic career that included an unprecedented sixteen years as Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union during some of the most turbulent and important years of the Cold War (1964-80). Relying heavily on first-person testimony, including several interviews with Ford himself, Charles Ruud takes the reader behind the official announcements, revealing Ford's thoughts and actions as he dealt with what was then seen as the great arch-enemy of Western democratic nations. During his tenure as ambassador Ford was in frequent contact with Moscow's rulers and aware of their struggles, hopes, plans, and fears. Although they |
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appeared powerful, Ford insisted that they sat uneasily on their Kremlin thrones. He showed their shortcomings and the flaws of their system at moments of apparent triumph and warned against miscalculating their strength. Shaped by centuries of Russian tsarism and by Communist ideology, Soviet leaders distrusted the world outside their borders and often failed to understand it, making mistakes and then compounding them, always without acknowledgment. The Constant Diplomat uncovers the experiences that informed Ford's capacity to understand the Russians and provides a clear picture of the evolving Soviet domestic, political, social, and cultural scene from the late Stalin era through to the end of the Brezhnev regime. |
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