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Andrei Gromyko: Memories

Categorie	Geschiedenis Rusland
Boeknummer	#287279
Titel	Andrei Gromyko: Memories
Auteur	Gromyko, A.A.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London etc. : Hutchinson
Jaar van uitgave	1989
ISBN10	0091738083
ISBN13	9780091738082
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered hardcover, dust jacket, illustrated with a lot of b/w photographs.
Samenvatting	Andrei Gromyko has held high office in the Soviet government for more than 50 years, serving under every leader from Stalin to Gorbachev. As his country's Foreign Minister, he met and negotiated with almost every world leader. His memoirs describe the intrigues of power-politics behind the scenes in the Kremlin, and the characters and events which have dominated his political life. They provide unprecented insight into half a century of Soviet and world politics. We learn of Gromyko's upbringing in a small village far from the main cities, of his academic prominence and courtship of his wife, Lidia Grinevich. We see him, already in 1939, as ambassador to Washington, then in Yalta alongside Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. The book provides portraits of all his leading political contemporar... (Lees verder)ies, and revelations, such as the time Chairman Mao asked for Soviet support for an atomic bombing of American forces.
Pagina's	365
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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