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ЯЗЫК МОЙ - ДРУГ МОЙ. ОТ ХРУЩЕВА ДО ГОРБАЧЕВА...

Bibliographic Description

Язык мой - друг мой. От Хрущева до Горбачева... / Суходрев, В.М. – М. : ТОНЧУ, 2008. – ISBN 978-5-91215-010-4.

Author
Суходрев, В.М.
Publisher
ТОНЧУ
Year of publication
2008
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

Viktor Mikhailovich Sukhodrev can rightfully be called a legendary, "chief" interpreter. For almost forty years he was the personal interpreter of our country's political leaders: Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gromyko, Mikoyan, Kosygin, and Gorbachev. During their negotiations with Nixon, Kennedy, Carter, Nasser, Indira Gandhi, and many other outstanding world political figures, he personified the intellect, culture, and diplomatic flexibility of the Soviet leaders. This latter quality of the work of the "country's chief interpreter" was especially important, since what the country's first person said, his very words, determined not only the resolution of many pressing issues in international relations, but, on the whole, peace on the planet (for example, in the era of the Cold War, during the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and so on). The author offers the reader his own view, so to speak at close range, of the powerful figures of that era. He tells what kind of people they were, about their merits and weaknesses, their habits, the impression they made, how they behaved not only in an official setting but also in an informal one, what might be called behind the scenes, and about what sets them apart from us, mere mortals.

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