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Jan 12, 2023 · Marvin Kalb, then a young diplomatic attaćhe at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, observed this tumultuous year that foretold the end of Soviet communism three decades later.
The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series presents Marvin Kalb, author of “The Year I Was Peter The Great: 1956 Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young Amer...
Nov 13, 2017 · On November 9, the Brookings Book Club hosted Marvin Kalb to discuss his new memoir with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. https://www.brookings.edu/...
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Oct 10, 2017 · The Year I Was Peter the Great. By Marvin Kalb. Purchase. Kalb was a graduate student doing research in Moscow as part of the U.S. diplomatic mission to what was then the Soviet...
Oct 10, 2017 · "The Year I Was Peter the Great," covers Kalb's tour in Moscow working as a JPRS translator for the US Embassy. It is a remarkable work covering the critical year 1956, or the "Year of the Thaw," when Khrushchev denounced Stalin and set the Soviet Union on the path of reform.
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Oct 9, 2017 · Marvin Kalb Publishes First Memoir: "The Year I Was Peter the Great". When Marvin Kalb first travelled to Russia, he was not yet a legendary journalist, but a Harvard doctoral student who had been given less than two weeks to prepare for his new life as a diplomatic attaché in Moscow.
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Kalb has authored or coauthored many nonfiction books (Eastern Exposure, Dragon in the Kremlin, The Volga, Roots of Involvement, Kissinger, Campaign ’88, The Nixon Memo and One Scandalous Story) and two best-selling novels (In the National Interest and The Last Ambassador). His book, The Year I was Peter the Great, was published on October 10 ...
