The West to the Rescue
bout de papier, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1991) — Spring 1991 // Printemps 1991, p. 35 On May 16, 1990, the President of Lithuania, Vytautus Landsbergus, said:“The west never promised us anything… We could only think that everything theWest has said had some foundation: that the principles and faith in humanity,democracy, people and nations’ rights […]
The George Costakis File
n April 4, 1990, an auction took place at Sotheby’s in London. On offer were, among other things, 20 works from the George Costakis collection of the Russian avant-garde, and four of Costakis’ own paintings, done late in this life.
A Failure of Soviet Intelligence?
Although newspapers at the time did not report it, and no mention of it is to be found in External Affairs’ files, the USSR’s vaunted intelligence apparatus seemed, curiously, to have failed for a few days back in 1971. This is what…
Diplomacy of Fear: Canada and the Cold War, 1941-1948
by Donald Barry
Our Man in Moscow — A Diplomat’s Reflections on the Soviet Union
by Peter Roberts
La grande illusion
Compte rendu par J.E. Ghislain Hardy
From Vietnam, Looking Outward
From April 27 to May 12 a delegation of 12 Canadian academics visited Vietnam to examine conditions and prospects with a view to compiling a book on Vietnam in the 1990’s: Canadian Perspectives. They also had talks in Bangkok, Thailand before and…
Letters // Correspondance
Dear Editor,
1945: Reflections from Canada House
One of Canada’s most distinguished commentators and scholars in the area of foreign policy and external affairs, John Holmes died on August 13, 1988. In this article, originally a lecture delivered at Carleton University, he explored some of the foreign policy conundrums…
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…
