Nikolaevich Shevchenko Arkady (3 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gut. Bastei 1987 : Schewtschenko - tb FV-HDML-7JJD Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 322.

8° , Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Gut. Erstauflage, EA,. 432 S.; 22 cm, Schutzumschlag, guter Zustand Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 790.

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition 5th Printing. BOOK: Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The highest-ranking Soviet official ever to defect (at the time he was Under Secretary General of the United Nations) tells an extraordinary story--of the inner workings of the Kremlin, of his own conflicted life as a diplomat, and of the frightening world of espionage into which he was drawn. BOOK NUMBER: 3/85. JACKET DESIGN BY: Robert Anthony. SYNOPSIS: In April 1978, Arkady Shevchenko--United Nations Under Secretary General and former adviser to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko--shocked the world diplomatic community by seeking refuge in the United States. The most important Soviet official ever to defect to the West, Shevchenko thus renounced what had been a meteoric career in his country's foreign service. Breaking with Moscow, reveals the reasons behind Shevchenko's action. He tells of his inner turmoil which began years before his defection, doubts about the Communist system that belied his reputation as a quintessential Soviet hard-liner and an ardent defender of his country' foreign policy. He also divulges how, for some years after he approached U. S. officials about asylum, he served as a source of information--as a reluctant spy--transmitting the contents of Soviet diplomatic communications to American intelligence agencies. Shevchenko describes in absorbing detail the inner workings of the top levels of the Soviet regime. Here are engrossing portraits of the tenacious Gromyko, whose power and influence have continued to increase as other Soviet leaders have passed from the scene, and of his canny lieutenant in Washington, Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin; of Soviet party leaders from Khrushchev to Chernenko; of ruthless and malevolent officials of the KGB. Here is a first-hand account of what takes place inside the Soviet diplomatic service and the Politburo itself. Here is apperceptive analysis of Russian attitudes toward the United States and other Western nations. And Shevchenko offers forthright judgments on the possibility of Soviet use of nuclear weapons, and on the Kremlin's cynical manipulation of the United Nations to further its own ends. Finally, here is Shevchenko's personal story: how he managed a double life of outward loyalty to the Soviet regime and secret disaffection from it; his fears (real and imagined), as the months of deception went by, that he would be detected by the KGB and shipped off to Moscow and oblivion, while at the same time his American "handlers" were pressing him to stay on under cover and provide more sensitive information. Then, an unexpected cable arrived from the Kremlin, ordering him home for "discussion of certain questions," and Shevchenko was certain that the dangerous game was over. From a man who achieved every success his government had to offer him, who retains a profound love of his homeland and its people, Breaking with Moscow is a unique account of life at the top of the Soviet power structure, an extraordinarily frank and fascinating memoir. Arkady Nikolaevich Shevchenko was born on October 11, 1930, in Gorlovka in the Ukraine. He was graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1954 and later received a Ph.D. from that institution. He joined the Foreign Ministry in 1956, and from 1963 to 1970 served in the Soviet Mission to the United Nations as chief of the Security Council and Political Affairs Division. From 1970 to 1973 he was personal adviser to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, holding the rank of ambassador. In 1973 he was appointed Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Political and Security Council Affairs. He resigned that post in the spring of 1978 and took up permanent residence in the United States. Mr. Shevchenko is the author of several books published in the Soviet Union, including four on the subject of disarmament and the United Nations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" ta.