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2008.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Perestroika was into its fourth year. Needless to say, that process could not have possibly bypassed the Foreign Ministry. Especially taking into account the fact that one of the masterminds of new political thinking held the ministerial seat. Calls to promote criticism and self-criticism, and openness and debate were coming from everywhere. No sanction from above was any longer required to bring any of the "for official use only" topics out into the open. All of that inspired the authors, rank and file officers at the Foreign Ministry at the time, to take up the pen. It was not our intention to go too deep into analyzing the new trends of Soviet foreign policy. The goal was far more modest - i.e., to tell, from the average person's perspective, about the way in which life at the ministry was organized, as well as about the problems and concerns that had affected the "diplomatic guard" during the perestroika era.
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