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Return to Moscow / Tony Kevin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kevin, A. C. (Anthony Charles), 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Russia--History.
- Political science.
- Russia.
- History.
- Nationalism--Russia--History.
- Nationalism.
- Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations.
- Russia (Federation).
- International relations.
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Politics and government.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 284 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Crawley, W.A. UWA Publishing, 2017.
- Summary:
- Forty-eight years ago, a young and apprehensive Tony Kevin set off with his family on his first diplomatic posting, to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In the Russian winter of 2016 he returns alone, a private citizen aged 73. What will he find? How has Russia changed since those grim Soviet days? Tony Kevin had a successful and challenging diplomatic career, ending with ambassadorships to Poland (1991-94) and Cambodia (1994-97). He now applies his attention to Vladimir Putin's Russia, a government and nation routinely demonised and disdained in Western capitals. Why does President Putin arouse such a high level of Western antagonism? Is the West throwing away the lessons of recent history in recklessly drifting into a perilous and unnecessary new Cold War confrontation against Russia? Tony Kevin invites readers to see this great nation anew: to explore with him the complex roots of Russian national identity and values, drawing on its traumatic recent seventy-year Soviet Communist past and its momentous thousand-year history as a great Orthodox Christian nation that has both loved and feared 'the West', and which the West has loved and feared back in equal measure.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Way We Were...
- Chapter 1 Going In 25
- Chapter 2 Moscow 1969-71 39
- Chapter 3 Laurie 63
- Part 2 There...
- Chapter 4 Quiet Days in Moscow 81
- Chapter 5 Peredelkino and Boris Pasternak 93
- Chapter 6 Suzdal and Russian Identity 113
- Chapter 7 Nizhny Novgorod and Andrei Sakharov 131
- Chapter 8 Yekaterinburg and Boris Yeltsin 145
- Chapter 9 Yasnaya Polyana and Leo Tolstoy 167
- Chapter 10 The Gulag Museum 181
- Chapter 11 The Jewish Museum 197
- Chapter 12 City of the Tsars 211
- Part 3 ...And Back Again
- Chapter 13 An Alternative Reality 225
- Chapter 14 The West's Information War on Russia 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781742589299
- 1742589294
- OCLC:
- 964581442
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