TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ford,Robert
TI  - Our Man in Moscow: A Diplomat's Reflections on the Soviet Union 
T2  - Heritage
SN  - 9781487595425
U1  - 947.084/2 20
PY  - 1989///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Diplomats
KW  - Canada
KW  - Biography
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - "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
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ER  -