The Kremlinologist: Llewellyn E Thompson, America's Man in Cold War Moscow
- ISBN-10
- 142142410X
- ISBN-13
- 9781421424101
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 600
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-03-01
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Authors
- Jenny Thompson, Sherry Thompson
Description
This unique and monumental biography not only restores a central figure to history, it makes the crucial events he shaped accessible to a broader readership and gives contemporary readers a backdrop for understanding the fraught United StatesRussia relationship that still exists today.
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