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| andrei gromyko memoirs: Memoirs Andreĭ Andreevich Gromyko, 1989 The former Soviet President, Foreign Minister, and Deputy Foreign Minister describes former Kremlin leaders and events that dominated his political life. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Memories Andrei Gromyko, 1989 Andrei Gromyko died in 1989 after a long and successful political career. Shortly before his death he wrote his memoirs which cover every aspect of his life. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Memories Andreĭ Andreevich Gromyko, 1989 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. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: When Presidents Lie Eric Alterman, 2005-10 Assesses the impact of governmental and presidential lies on American culture, revealing how such lies become ever more complex and how such deception creates problems far more serious than those lied about in the beginning. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: The End of the First Indochina War James Waite, 2012-08-21 The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the center of the Cold War in the mid-1950s. Arguing that the Indochina War cannot be understood as a topic of Franco-US relations, but ought to be treated as international history, this volume brings in Vietnamese and other global agents, including New Zealand, Australia, and especially Britain, as well as China and the Soviet Union. Importantly, the book also argues that the successful French withdrawal from Vietnam – a political defeat for the Eisenhower administration – helped to avert outright warfare between the major powers, although with very mixed results for the inhabitants of Vietnam who faced partition and further bloodshed. The End of the First Indochina War explores the complexities of intra-alliance competition over global strategy – especially between the United States and British Commonwealth – arguing that these rivalries are as important to understanding the Cold War as east-west confrontation. This is the first truly global interpretation of the French defeat in 1954, based on the author’s research in five western countries and the latest scholarship from historians of Vietnam, China, and Russia. Readers will find much that is new both in terms of archival revelations and original interpretations. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: They Did Not Dwell Alone Piet Buwalda, 1997 Drawing of his experience as former Dutch ambassador to the USSR, Petrus Buwalda recounts the full story of the refuseniks, whose immigration to Israel was by way of Holland. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Inside the Kremlin During the Yom Kippur War Victor Israelyan, 2010-11-01 Victor Israelyan was a senior ambassador in the Soviet Foreign Ministry when the armies of Egypt and Syria invaded Israeli-occupied territory on October 6, 1973. Critical to the outcome of this conflict were the Soviet Union and the United States, whose diplomatic maneuverings behind the scenes eventually ended what came to be known as the Yom Kippur War. During the crisis, however, tensions between the superpowers nearly escalated into nuclear war. Israelyan is the first Soviet official to give us a firsthand account of what actually happened inside the Kremlin during these three important weeks in 1973. Israelyan's account is a fascinating mixture of memoir, anecdotes, and historical reporting. As a member of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's staff, he was assigned to a four-man task force that attended the many Politburo meetings held during the war. The job of this task force was to take notes and prepare drafts of letters and other documents for the Politburo. In remarkable detail, made possible by his sharp memory and the notes and documents he saved, Israelyan chronicles the day-by-day activities of Kremlin leaders as they confronted the crisis. For the first time we can see how the cumbersome Soviet policy-making mechanism, headed by the Politburo, functioned in a tense international situation. We see how the actions of Henry Kissinger, Anwar Sadat, Hafiz al-Assad, and other participants in the crisis were interpreted in Moscow. From his own experience Israelyan gives us intimate portraits of top Soviet officials including Brezhnev, Gromyko, and Andropov. His access to important documents&—including letters from Richard Nixon to Leonid Brezhnev, never officially released in the U.S.&—provide a much-needed corrective to assertions made by Kissinger, Nixon, and Sadat about the war. Supplemented by rare photographs and interviews with other Soviet officials, Inside the Kremlin During the Yom Kippur War is more than a record of the past. Israelyan offers a unique vantage point on the continuing Middle East conflict, and his candid assessment of the mindset of Russian leaders is instructive for understanding how the present leadership of Russia faces its new role in the post-Cold War world. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Eden D R Thorpe, 2011-05-31 Anthony Eden, who served as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, was one of the central political figures of the twentieth century. He had good looks, charm, a Military Cross from the Great War, an Oxford first and a secure parliamentary constituency from his mid-twenties. He was Foreign Secretary at the age of 38, and the first British statesman to meet Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Eden's dramatic resignation from Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet in 1938, outlined here in the fullest detail yet, made an international impact. This ground-breaking book examines his controversial life and tells the inside story of the Munich crisis (1938), the Geneva Conference (1954), Eden's battles with Churchill over the modernisation of the post-war Conservative Party and his rivalry with Butler and Macmillan in the early 1950s, culminating in a fascinating analysis of the Suez crisis. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: "One Finger's Worth of Historical Events" David Wolff, 2000 |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies Patt Leonard, Rebecca Routh, 2020-02-27 This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Baltic Question K. Piirimäe, 2014-09-11 In 1940, the USSR occupied and annexed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, leading to calls by many that the Soviets had violated international law. This book examines British, US, and Soviet policies toward the Baltic states, placing the true significance of the Baltic question in its proper geopolitical context. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Stalin Hiroaki Kuromiya, 2013-08-16 This profile looks at how Stalin, despite being regarded as intellectually inferior by his rivals, managed to rise to power and rule the largest country in the world, achievieving divine-like status as a dictator. Through recently uncovered research material and Stalin’s archives in Moscow, Kuromiya analyzes how and why Stalin was a rare, even unique, politician who literally lived by politics alone. He analyses how Stalin understood psychology campaigns well and how he used this understanding in his political reign and terror. Kuromiya provides a convincing, concise and up-to-date analysis of Stalin’s political life. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy James N. Giglio, 2006 The presidency of John F. Kennedy continues to fascinate, even as it also continues to inspire heated debates between admirers and detractors of Camelot's fallen king. Now readers can gain a new appreciation of JFK in this thoroughly revised and updated edition of James Giglio's bestselling study, widely acclaimed as the best and most balanced book on JFK's White House years. Giglio incorporates the voluminous archival materials made available in the last fifteen years, including the declassified documents on crucial foreign policy affairs and White House medical records that contradict the image of Kennedy's youth and vigor. He stresses the extent to which domestic and foreign policies were interconnected at a time when the Cold War dominated national life and reveals his new appreciation for JFK's prudence in his handling of such enormous challenges as the Cuban missile crisis and the emerging war in Vietnam. Giglio shows Kennedy to be the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of our presidents. He reviews the physical ailments and heavy prescriptions that were kept out of the public eye and catalogs sexual indiscretions ranging from Marilyn Monroe and socialite Florence Pritchett to low-level White House employees and even virtual strangers. Surveying this field of conquest, Giglio suggests that JFK's sexual obsession could easily have affected his presidency even more during a second term. His work also amplifies coverage of key issues like civil rights, the Cuban missile crisis, and Vietnam and reevaluates many of the questions surrounding the assassination—maintaining that, even with the existence of a conspiracy still doubtful, the case is far from closed. Like the first edition, this new edition provides a sharp and thoughtful analysis of both domestic and foreign affairs and underscores that, despite his undeniably brief tenure in office, the state of the nation actually did improve on Kennedy's watch. Featuring an expanded bibliographical essay and twenty-two photos from the JFK library, The Presidency of John F. Kennedy remains the definitive appraisal of Camelot's kingdom. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: The Peacemaker William Inboden, 2022-11-15 Winner of the Society of Presidential Descendants Book Award and the Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize One of the Wall Street Journal’s best political books of 2022 A masterful account of how Ronald Reagan and his national security team confronted the Soviets, reduced the nuclear threat, won the Cold War, and supported the spread of freedom around the world. “Remarkable… a great read.”—Robert Gates • “Mesmerizing… hard to put down.”—Paul Kennedy • “Full of fresh information… will shape all future studies of the role the United States played in ending the Cold War.”—John Lewis Gaddis • “A major contribution to our understanding of the Reagan presidency and the twilight of the Cold War era.”—David Kennedy With decades of hindsight, the peaceful end of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, most experts believed the Soviet Union was strong, stable, and would last into the next century. Ronald Reagan entered the White House with no certainty of what would happen next, only an overriding faith in democracy and an abiding belief that Soviet communism—and the threat of nuclear war—must end. The Peacemaker reveals how Reagan’s White House waged the Cold War while managing multiple crises around the globe. From the emergence of global terrorism, wars in the Middle East, the rise of Japan, and the awakening of China to proxy conflicts in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, Reagan’s team oversaw the worldwide expansion of democracy, globalization, free trade, and the information revolution. Yet no issue was greater than the Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union. As president, Reagan remade the four-decades-old policy of containment and challenged the Soviets in an arms race and ideological contest that pushed them toward economic and political collapse, all while extending an olive branch of diplomacy as he sought a peaceful end to the conflict. Reagan’s revolving team included Secretaries of State Al Haig and George Shultz; Secretaries of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Frank Carlucci; National Security Advisors Bill Clark, John Poindexter, and Bud McFarlane; Chief of Staff James Baker; CIA Director Bill Casey; and United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Talented and devoted to their president, they were often at odds with one another as rivalries and backstabbing led to missteps and crises. But over the course of the presidency, Reagan and his team still developed the strategies that brought about the Cold War’s peaceful conclusion and remade the world. Based on thousands of pages of newly-declassified documents and interviews with senior Reagan officials, The Peacemaker brims with fresh insights into one of America’s most consequential presidents. Along the way, it shows how the pivotal decade of the 1980s shaped the world today. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Witness to Hope George Weigel, 2009-10-13 This definitive biography of Pope John Paul II explores his historic influence on the world stage: “Magnificent. A tremendous achievement” (Washington Post). As head of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, John Paul II was one of the world’s most transformational figures. With unprecedented cooperation from the Pope, as well as the people who knew and worked with him throughout his life, George Weigel offers a groundbreaking portrait of him as a man, a thinker, and a leader whose religious convictions defined a new approach to world politics—and changed the course of history. The Pope played a crucial yet underexplored role in some of the most momentous events of his time, including the collapse of European communism, the quest for peace in the Middle East, and the democratic transformation of Latin America. With an updated preface, this edition of Witness to Hope explains how this “man from a far country” did all of that, and much more—and what both his accomplishments and the unfinished business of his pontificate mean for the future of the Church and the world. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Reagan's War Peter Schweizer, 2003-10-21 Reagan’s War is the story of Ronald Reagan’s personal and political journey as an anti-communist, from his early days as an actor to his years in the White House. Challenging popular misconceptions of Reagan as an empty suit who played only a passive role in the demise of the Soviet Union, Peter Schweizer details Reagan’s decades-long battle against communism. Bringing to light previously secret information obtained from archives in the United States, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Russia—including Reagan’s KGB file—Schweizer offers a compelling case that Reagan personally mapped out and directed his war against communism, often disagreeing with experts and advisers. An essential book for understanding the Cold War, Reagan’s War should be read by open-minded readers across the political spectrum. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Sound and Fury Eric Alterman, 2019-06-30 For this new edition, Eric Alterman has made revisions throughout the book, with new material on the impact of the O. J. Simpson trial and the rise of MSNBC as well as on the Clinton scandals, the media's obsession with Monica Lewinsky, and the resulting conflation of investigative reporting with gossip. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: The Second Cold War Aaron Donaghy, 2021-04-29 The compelling account of the last great Cold War struggle between America and the Soviet Union that took place between 1977 and 1985. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Douglas Home David Dutton, 2006-10-01 Alec Douglas-Home was an aristocrat who disclaimed his peerage to become Prime Minister in 1963. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Five to Rule Them All David L. Bosco, 2009 In this lively, fast-moving, and often humorous narrative, David Bosco illuminates the role of the Security Council in the postwar world, telling the inside story of this remarkable diplomatic creation. Drawing on extensive research, including dozens of interviews with serving and former ambassadors on the Council, the book chronicles political battles and personality clashes as it opens the closed doors of its meeting room. What emerges here is a revealing portrait of the most powerful diplomatic body in the world. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: World War II Behind Closed Doors Laurence Rees, 2010-05-04 In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict. Drawing on material available only since the opening of archives in Eastern Europe and Russia, as well as amazing new testimony from nearly a hundred separate witnesses from the period—Rees reexamines the key choices made by Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during the war, and presents, in a compelling and fresh way, the reasons why the people of Poland, the Baltic states, and other European countries simply swapped the rule of one tyrant for another. Surprising, incisive, and endlessly intriguing, World War II Behind Closed Doors will change the way we think about the Second World War. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Zhukov Otto Preston Chaney, 2014-05-19 Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, hero of Leningrad, defender of Moscow and Stalingrad, commander of the victorious Red Army at Berlin, was the most decorated soldier in Soviet history. Yet for many years Zhukov was relegated to the status of unperson in his homeland. Now, following glasnost and the fall of the Soviet Union, Zhukov is being restored to his rightful place in history. In this completely updated version of his classic 1971 biography of Zhukov, Otto Preston Chaney provides the definitive account of the man and his achievements. Zhukov’s career spanned most of the Soviet period, reflecting the turmoil of the civil war, the hardships endured by the Russian people in World War II, the brief postwar optimism evidenced by the friendship between Zhukov and Eisenhower, repression in Poland and Hungary, and the rise and fall of such political figures as Stalin, Beria, and Krushchev. The story of Russia’s greatest soldier thus offers many insights into the history of the Soviet Union itself. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr Burton Ira Kaufman, Scott Kaufman, 2006 A thoroughly revised, updated, and newly illustrated version of the Gaddis Smith called the best book on the totality of the Carter presidency. The new edition includes more on the former president's foreign and environmental policies and expands coverage of the personal Carter as well as his wife Rosalyn's activist role during his administration. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Racing the Enemy Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, 2006-09-30 Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story—the US, the USSR, and Japan. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, he reveals the real reasons Japan surrendered. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Writing History in Twentieth-Century Russia A. Litvin, 2001-10-10 In this fascinating book Alter Litvin tells us what life was really like for professional Soviet historians from Lenin to Gorbachev, and assesses the efforts made since 1991 to create a more truthful picture of the turbulent Russian past. Passionate yet fair-minded, this is the first account of the subject to appear in English. Designed primarily for the general reader, it contains much fresh material of specialist interest and an ample up-to-date bibliography. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Molotov Remembers V. M. Molotov, Feliz Chuev, 2007-09-25 In conversations with the poet-biographer Felix Chuev, Molotov offers an incomparable view of the politics of Soviet society and the nature of Kremlin leadership under communism. Filled with startling insights and indelible portraits, the book is an historical source of the first order. OA mesmerizing and chilling chronicle.ONKirkus Reviews. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: The Juggler Warren F. Kimball, 1994-08-08 Here Warren Kimball explores Roosevelt's vision of the postwar world by laying out the nature and development of FDR's war aims--his long-range political goals. As the face of eastern Europe and the world changes before our eyes, Roosevelt's goals, dismissed during the Cold War as impractical, seem less unrealistic today. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: International Relations Since 1945 John W. Young, John Kent, 2013-02-07 International Relations since 1945 offers undergraduate students a comprehensive and accessible introduction to global political history since World War II. Clearly structured, and with a balance of description and analysis, the text is also supported by a range of helpful learning features and an accompanying website. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Winning the World Thomas Nichols, 2002-12-30 At the dawn of the 21st century, it should be evident that the Cold War of 1945-1991 was but the first of its kind. Nichols urges the reader to consider previous resolutions before another such conflict arises. He asserts that the Cold War was essentially a clash of ideologies tempered by the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. Victory for the West came quietly, without the final and utterly destructive war often envisioned. Undoubtedly, the end of the Cold War was a signal victory for the West, and for the United States in particular. Yet Nichols reminds that enemies of the ideals of democracy, capitalism, and liberty abound and will lash out against western states that hold true to them. When this occurs, it will be imperative for the West to remember key lessons taken from the Cold War. Nichols argues that conflicts driven by dissonant ideologies differ from wars fought over resources and territory, and must therefore be fought differently. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: First Steps toward Détente Richard D. Williamson, 2012-04-06 Richard Williamson’s First Steps toward Détente provides a history of negotiations conducted from 1958-1963 between the United States, its Western allies in Europe, and the Soviet Union, in order to resolve the Berlin crisis. These negotiations established ongoing patterns of backchannel, ambassadorial, foreign minister and heads of state discussions. From Khrushchev's visit to the United States in 1959 and the difficult Paris 1960 and Vienna 1961 summits to the construction of the Berlin Wall, disarmament remained a parallel concern dependent on Berlin’s resolution. Throughout most of 1962, the United States and Soviets made rigorous attempts to break a stalemate at Checkpoint Charlie, though neither side was truly ready to forfeit. Ultimately, the renewal of Berlin harassments and the Cuban missile crisis put an end to these efforts, but the closer relations that had developed through Berlin talks helped to enable the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963. The Berlin Crisis signaled a transition away from multilateral East-West relations to a bilateral U.S.-Soviet relationship, remaining oriented to military positions in Germany. In this book, Williamson explores the significance of these events and shows how the negotiations held between 1958 and 1963 provided the templates for détente. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: The Cold War Ralph B. Levering, 2015-12-16 Now available in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History offers an authoritative and accessible introduction to the history and enduring legacy of the Cold War. Thoroughly updated in light of new scholarship, including revised sections on President Nixon’s policies in Vietnam and President Reagan’s approach to U.S.-Soviet relations Features six all new counterparts sections that juxtapose important historical figures to illustrate the contrasting viewpoints that characterized the Cold War Argues that the success of Western capitalism during the Cold War laid the groundwork for the economic globalization and political democratization that have defined the 21st century Includes extended coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear age thus far |
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| andrei gromyko memoirs: Reagan and Gorbachev Jack Matlock, 2005-11-08 “[Matlock’s] account of Reagan’s achievement as the nation’s diplomat in chief is a public service.”—The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing . . . authoritative . . . a detailed and reliable narrative that future historians will be able to draw on to illuminate one of the most dramatic periods in modern history.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and principal adviser to Ronald Reagan on Soviet and European affairs, gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended. Working from his own papers, recent interviews with major figures, and unparalleled access to the best and latest sources, Matlock offers an insider’s perspective on a diplomatic campaign far more sophisticated than previously thought, waged by two leaders of surpassing vision. Matlock details how Reagan privately pursued improved U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations even while engaging in public saber rattling. When Gorbachev assumed leadership, however, Reagan and his advisers found a willing partner in peace. Matlock shows how both leaders took risks that yielded great rewards and offers unprecedented insight into the often cordial working relationship between Reagan and Gorbachev. Both epic and intimate, Reagan and Gorbachev will be the standard reference on the end of the Cold War, a work that is critical to our understanding of the present and the past. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: The Presidency of Richard Nixon Melvin Small, 1999 A lively anecdotal account features every facet of Nixon's controversial administration, just in time for the 25th anniversary of his history-making resignation from the presidency. 23 photos. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Crosscurrents Martin B. Gold, 2022-12-19 In their struggle against wartime Japan and later against international Communism, the United States and Nationalist China were necessary but awkward allies, united by common enemies but divided by sharply conflicting national priorities and contradictory objectives. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: American Foreign Relations Reconsidered Gordon Martel, 2002-11-01 This major new textbook brings together twelve of the leading scholars of U.S. foreign relations. Each contributor provides a clear, concise summary of an important period or theme in US diplomatic and strategic affairs since the Spanish-American War. Michael Hunt and Joan Hoff provide an overview of the traditions behind US policy and a preview of things to come. Together, the contributors offer a succinct explanation of the controversies and questions that historians have grappled with throughout the twentieth century. Students will find these essays a reliable and useful guide to the various schools of thought which have emerged. Although each of the scholars is well known for their detailed and original work, these essays are new and have been specially commissioned for this book. The articles follow the chronological development of the emergence of the United States as a world power, but special themes such as the American policy process, economic interests, relations with the Third World, and the dynamics of the nuclear arms race have been singled out for separate treatment. American Foreign Relations Reconsidered, 1890-1993 represents essential reading for upper level undergraduates studying modern American history. The book has been designed and written exclusively to meet the needs of students, either as a major course text, or as a set of supplementary readings to support other texts. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Stalin's Cold War Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, 1995 In the first analysis of the start of the Cold War from a Soviet viewpoint, Caroline Kennedy-Pipe draws on Russian source material to reach some startling conclusions. She challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of Western historians to show how Moscow saw the presence of US troops in Europe in the 1940s and early 1950s as advantageous rather than as a check on Soviet ambitions. The author points to a complex web of concerns than fuelled Moscow's actions, and explores how the Soviet leadership, and Stalin in particular, responded to American policy. She shows how the Soviet experience of the United States and Europe, both before, during and after the Second World War, led Moscow to a policy that was not simply fuelled by anti-Americanism. Six chapters cover events from the wartime conferences of 1943 until the death of Stalin. A final chapter places the book in the context of the current debate over the causes of the Cold War. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Kissinger and the Yom Kippur War David R. Morse, 2015-06-08 The 1973 Yom Kippur War marked a turning point in the special relationship between the United States and Israel. While previous U.S. administrations had taken a relatively even hand in the Middle East, the action saw American support of Israel become virtually unconditional. A massive airlift of military hardware to Israel brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union closer to conflict. As the war--just two weeks in duration--played out along the Suez Canal, U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign amidst bribery allegations. Watergate escalated, resulting in President Nixon's near-breakdown. Despite Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's efforts to supply arms to Israel, he was stymied by resistance in the Department of Defense, which some saw as overly provocative toward the Arabs. Ostensibly a U.S. foreign policy success, the war led directly to the 1974 oil crisis and a permanent rift in U.S.-Arab relations. Drawing on Kissinger's telephone conversations and recently declassified documents, this book tells the story of how the secretary became the chief architect of America's Middle East policy, and how his Cold War strategy played a critical role in the decision to pursue active military involvement. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire" Geir Lundestad, 2012-03-08 The Rise and Decline of the American Empire explores the rapidly growing literature on the rise and fall of the United States. The author argues that after 1945 the US has definitely been the most dominant power the world has seen and that it has successfully met the challenges from, first, the Soviet Union and, then, Japan, and the European Union. Now, however, the United States is in decline: its vast military power is being challenged by asymmetrical wars, its economic growth is slow and its debt is rising rapidly, the political system is proving unable to meet these challenges in a satisfactory way. While the US is still likely to remain the world's leading power for the foreseeable future, it is being challenged by China, particularly economically, and also by several other regional Great Powers. The book also addresses the more theoretical question of what recent superpowers have been able to achieve and what they have not achieved. How could the United States be both the dominant power and at the same time suffer significant defeats? And how could the Soviet Union suddenly collapse? No power has ever been omnipotent. It cannot control events all around the world. The Soviet Union suffered from imperial overstretch; the traditional colonial empires suffered from a growing lack of legitimacy at the international, national, and local levels. The United States has been able to maintain its alliance system, but only in a much reformed way. If a small power simply insists on pursuing its own very different policies, there is normally little the United States and other Great Powers will do. Military intervention is an option that can be used only rarely and most often with strikingly limited results. |
| andrei gromyko memoirs: Preventive Diplomacy at the UN Bertrand G. Ramcharan, 2008-05-07 The concept of preventive diplomacy has captivated the United Nations since it was first articulated by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld a half-century ago. Successive generations of diplomats and statesmen have invested in the idea that diplomatic efforts might be able to head off international conflicts and disasters. Dramatic successes, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, contrast with dramatic failures, such as the inability of UN efforts to halt the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In this careful study, distinguished former UN civil servant Bertrand G. Ramcharan traces the history of the practice of preventive diplomacy by UN Secretaries-General, the Security Council, and other UN organizations, and assesses the record of preventive diplomacy and examines its prospects in an age of genocide and terrorism. |
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A P A LE S T IN E S O LU T IO N - Marxists Internet Archive
The historic address of the Soviet delegate in the UN General Assembly By ANDREI GROMYKO text of this historic address. It marked the turning point in the winning of socialist, democratic …
LE PRÉSIDENT, LE MALHEUR ET LA GUERR
E LA SPÉCIFICITÉ DU MOMENT ROOSEVELT D ans ses mémoires, Andreï Gromyko rapporte une scène qu’il situe au palais de Li.
Address by the Soviet Representative (Andrei Gromyko) to the …
iscoveries of mankind found its first material application in the form of a particular weapon -- the atomic bomb. However, although up to the present time this use of atomic energy is the only …
Biography of Andrei Gromyko - Gerald R. Ford Presidential …
Andrey Gromyko, manager of one of th~' world's largest For eign service bureauc ",;;' racies, is the most senior diplomatic leader among the major powers. Appointed in 1957, he is the first …
Memories Gromyko , Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ …
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 …
Memoranda of Conversation: September 21, 1974 - Ford, …
Gromyko: There are two ways to go: if we move ahead while negotiating. We could say to our peoples we will work on some areas. The first way is to say: stay strong while negotiating; the …
An. A. Gromyko (1932-2017), Al. A. Gromyko
Ne gotiations Better than One Day of War. Memories of Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko" (author and redactor), "Memories of Nikolai Shmelev" (e. itor and redactor), "21 st century Europe. …
Kramer20171106-Mosaic.pdf.pdf - Scholars at Harvard
Shortly before midday on May 14, 1947, Andrei Gromyko, the permanent representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations, mounted the dais of the UN General Assembly Hall in …
ANDREI GROMYKO: PORTRAIT OF A RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT
WHEN Franklin Roosevelt died, Soviet Ambassador Andrei An-dreievich Gromyko received an ur gent cable from Stalin instructing him to personally place a wreath on the coffin. Gromyko was …
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Sweden
Soviet Union by King Charles XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia. Gromyko writes in his memoirs that the King’s visit was to some extent a land-mark in Soviet – Swedish relations, as it showed …
Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics
Molotov refused to publish an anodyne, sanitized version of his memoirs tailored to fit the current line, of the sort Andrei Gromyko and Anastas Mikoyan had published.
‘Ten years one day of war’ On July 18th, our legendary would …
On July 18th, our legendary countryman Andrei Gromyko would have turned 115 years old f of the Soviet Union. San Francisco, Ju Andrei Gromyko at a meeting with John F.Kennedy The …
Andrei A. Gromyko: “On American Intervention In Korea, 1950”
Andrei A. Gromyko: “On American Intervention In Korea, 1950” Statement by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, July 4,1950 The events now taking place in Korea broke out on …
U.S.S.R.’s Andrei Gromyko: ‘The Triumph of Reason’
Oct 2, 1979 · "The ancient Greeks," said Gromyko, "left us wise myths whose beauty lies in glorifying what is human in man." But today there are efforts to make man "despair of the …
Remarks by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to the …
Mr. GROMYKO (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (translated from Russian): The course of the discussion, both in the plenary meetings of the General Assembly and in the First Committee, …
The October 1973 War: Kissinger in Moscow - JSTOR
Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko informed the four-man task force, set up in the Foreign Ministry at the beginning of the war, that Brezhnev had decided to address US president …
Fifty years ago this month, the Cuban Missile Crisis veered …
In a White House meeting the afternoon of Oct. 18, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko—who, unlike Dobrynin, did know the details of the missile deploy-ment—assured …
Collection: Folder Title: Box
The President's Meetings with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko (Friday, September 28, 1984) Attached at Tab I is a memorandum combining the briefing meeting, the President's official …
REVIEW ARTICLE PRIVILEGED SOURCES: INSIDER …
' Gromyko's writings elicited little interest among Soviet specialists in world affairs. Indeed, none whom I met in the late 1980s had read or wanted to read his memoirs, issued in two leather …
Gromyko's letter to Kissinger - SAGE Journals
The text of the following letter from Andrei Gromyko, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs, which was handed over on 26 October to Dr Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, was published in …
A P A LE S T IN E S O LU T IO N - Marxists Internet Archive
The historic address of the Soviet delegate in the UN General Assembly By ANDREI GROMYKO text of this historic address. It marked the turning point in the winning of socialist, democratic …
LE PRÉSIDENT, LE MALHEUR ET LA GUERR
E LA SPÉCIFICITÉ DU MOMENT ROOSEVELT D ans ses mémoires, Andreï Gromyko rapporte une scène qu’il situe au palais de Li.
Address by the Soviet Representative (Andrei Gromyko) to …
iscoveries of mankind found its first material application in the form of a particular weapon -- the atomic bomb. However, although up to the present time this use of atomic energy is the only …
