Tchaikovsky 19 a Diplomatic Life Behind the Iron Curtain

Readers will discover the failures of Kissinger´s policy of detente in the early 1970s the mistaken departure from Carter´s balanced policy toward China and the USSR and the near-collapse of the embassy due to intelligence failures-Foreign Service Journal. Ober´s book recounts it all along with the personalities and events of the time now mostly forgotten: dissidents and refuseniks Victor and Jennifer Louis Nina and Ed Stevens U.S.-Soviet summits microwaves bugged buildings and typewriters fires spy dust and spy mania . . . It´s all there the pageant of U.S. Embassy Moscow 1970-90 a place so unlike today´s walled air-conditioned high-rise embassy fortress a block away as to beggar the imagination.-Richard Gilbert AmericanDiplomacy.org You have wonderfully captured the way things were in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ´80s. I don´t know anyone who has done it better.-Donald Connery former Time-Life correspondent Moscow. Together with much wisdom about American diplomacy this rich memoir provides keen insight into Russian thinking and behavior-George Feifer The Girl from Petrovka.