Return to Moscow

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Forty-eight years ago, a young and apprehensive Tony Kevin set off with his circle of relatives on his first diplomatic posting, to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In the Russian winter of 2016 he returns by myself, a private citizen, aged 73. What’s going to he find? How has Russia changed since those grim Soviet days? Tony Kevin had a successful and challenging diplomatic career, ending with ambassadorships to Poland (1991-94) and Cambodia (1994-97). He now applies his attention to Vladimir Putin’s Russia, a central authority and nation routinely demonized and disdained in Western capitals. Why does President Putin arouse this type of high level of Western antagonism? Is the West throwing away the lessons of contemporary history in recklessly drifting into a perilous and needless new Cold War war of words against Russia? The writer invites readers to see this great nation anew: to explore with him the complex roots of Russian national identity and values, drawing on its traumatic contemporary seventy-year Soviet Communist past and its momentous thousand-year history as a great Orthodox Christian nation that has both loved and feared ‘the West,’ and which the West has loved and feared back in equal measure. Tony Kevin’s previous books include A Certain Maritime Incident: the sinking of SIEV X (2004) and Reluctant Rescuers (2012) on Australia’s well-resourced maritime border protection system. He published a go back and forth memoir Walking the Camino (2007) about his long pilgrimage walk through Spain in 2006. In 2009, Crunch Time tackled issues, still unresolved, of framing an effective Australian policy against global warming. [Subject: Non-Fiction, Travel Memoir, Russian Studies]

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