LEADER 03994nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910966988303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612866517 010 $a9780773584327 010 $a0773584323 010 $a9781282866515 010 $a1282866516 010 $a9780773576049 010 $a0773576045 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773576049 035 $a(CKB)2560000000056239 035 $a(OCoLC)759157069 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10424121 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000434843 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11298484 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000434843 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10402837 035 $a(PQKB)11104255 035 $a(CEL)432836 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00225666 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332134 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10559085 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL286651 035 $a(OCoLC)923235212 035 $a(DE-B1597)656647 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773576049 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/mt081j 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332134 035 $a(Perlego)3551121 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000056239 100 $a20090408d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe constant diplomat $eRobert Ford in Moscow /$fCharles A. Ruud 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal ;$aIthaca $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 311 08$a9780773535855 311 08$a0773535853 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMap: 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. 330 $aRobert 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 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. 606 $aAmbassadors$zCanada$vBiography 607 $aCanada$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union 607 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zCanada 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1953-1985 615 0$aAmbassadors 676 $a327.710092 700 $aRuud$b Charles A.$f1933-$01631089 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966988303321 996 $aThe constant diplomat$94365473 997 $aUNINA