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  title info:
    title: Midnight in Moscow
    sub title: a memoir from the front lines of Russia's war against the West
  name:
    name part: Sullivan, John Joseph
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Mattis, James M.
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm
  abstract: For weeks before the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night by an employee at Embassy Moscow with a prearranged code. The signal was even more bracing than the cold of that February night: it meant that Sullivan needed to collect his bodyguards and get to the embassy as soon as possible. The war had begun, and U.S.-Russia relations would never be the same. In Midnight in Moscow, Sullivan offers a memoir of his last post, as well as a broader argument about how our relationship with Russia has deteriorated over the past three years and where it's going. His arrival in Moscow coincided almost exactly with a dramatic series of escalations by the Kremlin. He saw firsthand how the Russian leadership repeatedly lied about their intentions to invade Ukraine in the weeks leading up to the attack-while also devoting huge numbers of personnel and vast resources to undermining the U.S. diplomatic presence in Russia. But it was not until Vladimir Putin gave the order to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 25, 2022 that Sullivan had to admit that Russia was not just at war with its neighbor: it was also at war, in a very real sense, with the United States, and with everything that it represents. Russian leaders' treachery and naked hostility, he says, is definitive proof that there can be no negotiation with Putin's regime or with the Russians at large until their government is thoroughly transformed. A unique perspective on a pivotal moment in world history, Midnight in Moscow also draws shocking historical parallels to explain why we need to stand up to Moscow--and how far we should be prepared to go in that confrontation.--
  table of contents: August 31, 1939 -- A new challenge -- The gauntlet -- Early skirmishes -- Polite reception by hostile government -- Mission Russia -- The chekist -- Isolation and transition -- Matters of concern -- Elusive search for stability -- Rumors of war -- A gun on the table -- Aggressive war -- No easy days -- Two funerals -- A crime against peace -- What is to be done?
  target audience: adult
  note: John J. Sullivan, Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-un---
    geographic code: e-ru---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sullivan, John Joseph
      name part: 1959-
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: World politics
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Security, International
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Russia
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: Ukraine
    topic: Military relations
    geographic: Russia
  subject:
    topic: World politics
  subject:
    geographic: Kyïv (Ukraine)
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Relations extérieures
    geographic: Russie
    temporal: 21e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Politique mondiale
  subject:
    topic: Politique mondiale
    temporal: 21e siècle
  subject:
    geographic: Kiev (Ukraine)
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 21e siècle
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
  subject:
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: Foreign relations
  subject:
    topic: World politics
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: History
  classification: DK5467 .S89 2024
  classification: 947.7086
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Midnight in Moscow
    origin info:
      publisher: New York :
      edition: Little, Brown and Company, 2024.
    identifier: (DLC) 2024936536
  identifier: 9780316571098
  identifier: 0316571091
  identifier: 2024936536
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240411
    record change date: 20250318222410.0
    record identifier: in00005530439
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng