{"product_id":"our-man-in-moscow-a-diplomats-reflections-on-the-soviet-union-9780802073679","title":"Our Man in Moscow: A Diplomat's Reflections on the Soviet Union","description":"\"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 entr e into the Soviet literary world. In this memoir he offers a unique perspective on post-war Soviet politics and Russian life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert A. D. Ford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802073679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFord, Robert A. D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Robert A.D. Ford (1915-1998) was a diplomat and poet. Ford joined the Department of External Affairs in 1940 and in 1946 was second secretary in the Canadian embassy in Moscow, where he spent much of his career in various positions, including ambassador (1964-80). Other postings included Yugoslavia and the United Arab Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40136304132211,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_068b6403-48b0-4196-a2b1-57cc1283b770.jpg?v=1654263235","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/our-man-in-moscow-a-diplomats-reflections-on-the-soviet-union-9780802073679","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}