Memoirs

Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich, trans. by Harold Shukman

ISBN 10: 0385412886 / ISBN 13: 9780385412889

Published by Doubleday, New York, 1989

About this Item

25 cm, 414, illus., appendix, index. Translation of Pamiatnoe. Foreword by Henry Kissinger. The memoirs of the longtime Soviet diplomat, who served for more than 50 years under several regimes from Stalin to Gorbachev. He was Soviet Ambassador to the United States for many years.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memoirs
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385412886
• ISBN 13: 9780385412889
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition. First? Printing.
• Condition: very good, very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cold War
  • NATO
  • Disarmament
  • Soviet Union
  • Arms Control

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Synopsis

The late Soviet Foreign Minister offers a candid account of his life and the personalities and events that shaped his career, providing incisive portraits of his political contemporaries and an analysis of the continuing implications of Stalinism for the USSR

Reviews

These memoirs give us a glimpse of a figure who has until now seemed little more than a rather cardboard, archetypal Soviet politician. Gromyko, who died in July 1989, tells of his early years in a small Russian village; his experience in the traumatic Russian Civil War; and his steady rise to the top (foreign minister for over half a century) of the Soviet political hierarchy. He also renders portraits of the century's most fascinating personalities, ranging from Richard Nixon to Charlie Chaplin. His personal views of Stalin, presented in a separate chapter, shed no new light on the dictator, but are significant given their source--a Soviet statesman who devoted his public life to the state Stalin created. This book will interest students of U.S.-Soviet relations and political leadership in the Soviet Union.
-Kim H. Tunnicliff, Albion Coll., Mich.
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