Russian and Russians are No Enigma When You Know Both
The question of how it is that the Soviet Union fields so many English-speaking officials while our side fields so few came out in stark relief last June when the Soviet authorities pulled their service staff out of our Moscow embassy in…
Moscow Despatches “Inside Cold War Russia”
Reviewed by Geoffrey Pearson
Prince Myshkin
bout de papier, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1986) — Fall 1986 // Automne 1986, p. 17 I have a holy fool inside.He weighs each word I say.And when I talk coherentlyI feel him drift away,Walk into the midnight fog,And wrap himself aroundA derelict, a pimp, a fagFor company underground.Or make a holy sacrifice,Idle in the […]
A Time for Peace
De temps à autre un livre est publié pour des raisons politiques. Lénine, Mao, De Gaulle tous ont publié des ouvrages afin d’exprimer comme tant d’autres leurs idées avec l’espoir de communiquer une pensée, une idéologie et surtout passer à l’histoire.
Robert Ford
Robert Ford, Canada’s Ambassador to Moscow for more than 16 years, expert in East/West relations and Russian poetry, and recipient of the Governor General’s medal for poetry for his work “A Window on the North”, has retired from the diplomatic service and…
Breaking with Moscow
This is an important book, and perhaps especially so for those in and beyond Ottawa who prefer to see the world exclusively through North/South rather than East/West prisms.
