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From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia /

A revelatory, behind-the-scenes acount of Rusian-American relations from the optimistic days of the end of communism in the Reagan-Gorbachev era to the confrontational era of Putin. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect Barack Obama's nat...

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Main Author:	McFaul, Michael, 1963- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
Subjects:	McFaul, Michael, > 1963- United States > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > United States. United States > Foreign relations > 1989- United States > Foreign relations > 2009-2017. Ambassadors > Russia (Federation) > Biography. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union. POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch.

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