Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xiii, 672 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
Before Washington. My diplomatic career begins -- My first look at the United States -- Summits: the view from the other side of the peak -- Washington: The Kennedy presidency, 1961-1963. Finding my way around Washington -- The Cuban crisis -- Learning to live together -- The Johnson presidency, 1963-1969. Getting to know the new president -- Moscow and Vietnam -- Trying to juggle peace and war -- Soviet policy seeks a steady course -- The fall of Lyndon Johnson -- The Nixon presidency, 1969-1974. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger -- Summit foothills -- A geopolitical triangle -- To the summit -- To the summit again, in America -- The October War -- The fall of Richard Nixon -- The Ford presidency, 1974-1977. Searching for the real Gerald Ford -- The erosion of detente -- How appeasing the right helped Ford lose the presidency -- The Carter presidency, 1977-1981. The contradictions of Jimmy Carter -- Carter's muddled priorities -- The summit with Carter -- Afghanistan -- Carter's defeat: an epitaph for detente -- The dismantling of detente -- The Reagan presidency, 1981-1989. The paradox of Ronald Reagan -- The Reagan crusade -- "More deeds, less words" -- The thaw -- The beginning of the end of the Cold War -- Goodbye to Washington -- After Washington. Gorbachev: the first and last president of the Soviet Union. |
Subject |
Dobrynin, Anatoliĭ Fedorovich, 1919-2010.
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Ambassadors -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1975.
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1975-1985.
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Dobrynin, Anatoly Fedorovich, 1919-
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Ambassadors -- USSR -- Biyography.
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ISBN |
0812923286 |
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9780812923285 |
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0812928946 paperback |
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9780812928945 paperback |
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9681654668 |
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9789681654665 |
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