"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.
| ISBN: | 9780802073679 |
| Publication date: | 6th March 1989 |
| Author: | Robert Ford |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Heritage |
| Genres: |
Biography: historical, political and military Political leaders and leadership General and world history Memoirs Political science and theory |