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Profession and Time: Notes of a Diplomatic Translator

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Profession and Time: Notes of a Diplomatic Translator
29.99 €
The author of this book, Pavel Palazhchenko, is a professional translator and diplomat who had the opportunity to witness and participate in events and negotiations that had a decisive impact on the turn from the Cold War to a new era in world politics. In the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s, he was a leading interpreter for the leaders of the USSR and participated in Soviet-American summit meetings in Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, Helsinki, Moscow, and Malta. The book tells how the negotiations were prepared and held, what difficulties had to be overcome on the way to nuclear arms reduction agreements, and gives portraits of the leaders who played a major role in ending the Cold War - Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, George Bush Sr. Through the eyes of the author of the book, the reader will see the dramatic events associated with the unification of Germany, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the "velvet revolutions" in Eastern Europe, the aggression of Iraq against Kuwait, the collapse of the USSR. The reader will also find in the book a story about the profession of translator, about how the author came into it, about the people who helped him in his professional development. The book is intended for a wide range of readers of all ages. The present, new edition of the book includes some corrections and clarifications compared to the previous ones.
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