"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 entre 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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Taal Engels ● Formaat PDF ● Pagina’s 400 ● ISBN 9781487595425 ● Uitgeverij University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ● Gepubliceerd 1989 ● Downloadbare 3 keer ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6620917 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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