Profession and time. Notes of the translator-diplomat. Palazhchenko P.

The author of this book Pavel Palazhchenko is a professional translator and diplomat, who had a chance to witness and participant in events and negotiations, who had a decisive influence on the turn of the Cold War to a new era in world politics. In the second half of the 1980s-early 1990s, he was a leading translator of the leaders of the USSR, participated in Soviet-American meetings at the highest level in Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, Helsinki, Moscow, and Malta. The book tells how negotiations were prepared and underwent, what difficulties had to be overcome on the path to agreements on reducing nuclear weapons, and portraits of leaders who played the main role in the cessation of the Cold War - M.S. Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, George Bush Sr. Through the eyes of the author of the book, the reader will see the dramatic events associated with the unification of Germany, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, “velvet revolutions” in the countries of Eastern Europe, Iraqi aggression against Kuwait, the collapse of the USSR.

The reader will also find a story about the book about The profession of a translator, about how the author came to it, about people who helped him in professional formation. The book is designed for a wide range of readers of all ages.

at the present, the new edition of the book, some corrections and clarifications are made compared to the previous ones.