The constant diplomat : Robert Ford in Moscow / Charles A. Ruud.

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...

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Main Author: Ruud, Charles A., 1933- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.