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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
ASIDE FROM INSPIRING WELL-UNDERSTOOD EMOTIONS, any anniversary, be it state, public, or personal, gives a pretext for looking into the past, evaluating the present, and thinking about the future.
The Diplomatic Academy boasts a glorious and remarkable past. Its rightful precursor, Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum, was where the diplomatic cadre began to be trained on the systematic basis for the first time in Russia's history.
In the Soviet period (which started with experiments in the spirit of Leon Trotsky's "guideline" that ordered to "shut down this shop" (People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs), it was soon realized that diplomats could not be trained in a haphazard manner and that no less reliable a system was needed than the one that existed before the October 1917 revolution. But the appropriate decision was long in coming. It was not until 1934 that an Institute for the Training of Diplomatic and Consular Workers under the USSR PCFA was formed.
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