Rodric Braithwaite
Biographic Data
| ID | 3647798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rodric Braithwaite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rodric |
| FAMILY NAME | Braithwaite |
| SIGNATURE | BRAITHWAITE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hope Deferred
The Soviet Union was formally replaced by the Russian Federation on 25 December 1991. Americans felt they had won the Cold War. Russians felt an angry sense of humiliation. The Soviet potential for collapse had become visible after Josef Stalin died in 1953. It was not corrected by the Soviet leadership nor picked up by Western governments, and it was masked by Soviet military and international success. But eventually the Soviet leadership could …
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
Do History Lessons Ever Pay off? A Diplomat’s Memoir
Sir Rodric Braithwaite was educated at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, from where he went to serve in HM Diplomatic Service, having worked in Jakarta, Moscow, Washington, Warsaw, Rome, and Brussels, where he was a member of the British delegation to the European Community. From 1988 to 1992, Sir Rodric served as HM Ambassador in the Soviet Union during the decisive years of the Perestroika and the first British ambassador in Russia. Su…
Great Leaders and Bad History
In The Human Factor, Archie Brown argues plausibly that certain leaders – Mikhail Gorbachev in particular – have made a difference in the course of history, even if constrained by structural factors
Proper Spying
In two wise and probing books, David Omand assesses that intelligence officers must be aware of their own weaknesses if they are to analyse those of others correctly
Chernobyl
Wholly engrossing, unsentimental and sympathetic, the television miniseries Chernobyl, by any reasonable yardstick, is a triumph
War in Afganistan
The Russians in Afghanistan
The author sets the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979–1989) in the historical context of the “Great Game”, in which the British and the Russians had paranoid suspicions of each other. An analogous process continued through the Cold war and, as a result, after the coup against Daoud the Soviets were forced slowly down the road to the 1979 intervention which they tried hard to avoid. His detailed analysis of the campaign sheds new light on many …
Afghan Diary
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRodric BraithwaiteRodric Braithwaite, whose diplomatic career included postings in Jakarta, Warsaw, Rome, Brussels and Washington, was British Ambassador in Moscow from 1988 to 1992. He has written two books on Russian affairs and is preparing a third, Afghantsy, about the Russians in Afghanistan
Misreading Russia
Moscow 1941
Across the Moscow River
Foreign policy and the art of intelligence
In Pursuit of British Interests: Reflections on Foreign Policy under Margaret Thatcher and John Major. By Percy Cradock. London: John Murray, 1997. Pp.228. £18.99. ISBN 0 7195 5464 0
Russian realities and western policy
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
Chernobyl
Wholly engrossing, unsentimental and sympathetic, the television miniseries Chernobyl, by any reasonable yardstick, is a triumph
Russian realities and western policy
Russian realities and western policy
Foreign policy and the art of intelligence
In Pursuit of British Interests: Reflections on Foreign Policy under Margaret Thatcher and John Major. By Percy Cradock. London: John Murray, 1997. Pp.228. £18.99. ISBN 0 7195 5464 0
Across the Moscow River
Moscow 1941
Misreading Russia
Afghan Diary
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRodric BraithwaiteRodric Braithwaite, whose diplomatic career included postings in Jakarta, Warsaw, Rome, Brussels and Washington, was British Ambassador in Moscow from 1988 to 1992. He has written two books on Russian affairs and is preparing a third, Afghantsy, about the Russians in Afghanistan
The Russians in Afghanistan
The author sets the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979–1989) in the historical context of the “Great Game”, in which the British and the Russians had paranoid suspicions of each other. An analogous process continued through the Cold war and, as a result, after the coup against Daoud the Soviets were forced slowly down the road to the 1979 intervention which they tried hard to avoid. His detailed analysis of the campaign sheds new light on many …
War in Afganistan
Chernobyl
Wholly engrossing, unsentimental and sympathetic, the television miniseries Chernobyl, by any reasonable yardstick, is a triumph
Do History Lessons Ever Pay off? A Diplomat’s Memoir
Sir Rodric Braithwaite was educated at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, from where he went to serve in HM Diplomatic Service, having worked in Jakarta, Moscow, Washington, Warsaw, Rome, and Brussels, where he was a member of the British delegation to the European Community. From 1988 to 1992, Sir Rodric served as HM Ambassador in the Soviet Union during the decisive years of the Perestroika and the first British ambassador in Russia. Su…
Great Leaders and Bad History
In The Human Factor, Archie Brown argues plausibly that certain leaders – Mikhail Gorbachev in particular – have made a difference in the course of history, even if constrained by structural factors
Proper Spying
In two wise and probing books, David Omand assesses that intelligence officers must be aware of their own weaknesses if they are to analyse those of others correctly
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
Hope Deferred
The Soviet Union was formally replaced by the Russian Federation on 25 December 1991. Americans felt they had won the Cold War. Russians felt an angry sense of humiliation. The Soviet potential for collapse had become visible after Josef Stalin died in 1953. It was not corrected by the Soviet leadership nor picked up by Western governments, and it was masked by Soviet military and international success. But eventually the Soviet leadership could …
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