CONTENTS Introduction 1 Cold War in Moscow 1951-52 2 Stalin’s Death and after, Moscow 1952-54 3 Bloodshed at Bled, Yugoslavia 1956-59 4 Cuba Yes Yankee No! Revolution and Communism Cuban Style 1959-62 5 The Missile Crisis and the Crime of the Century: Washington 1962-65 6 Recovering from Sukarno and Konfrontasi: Indonesia 1967-69 7 Academe and Watergate, Harvard 1973-74 8 Sandwiches for the Chargé, Moscow Again 1974-76 9 Democracy in Athens 1978-82 10 Three Funerals, Moscow 1982-85 ______________________________________ Notes Bibliography Index Map
'From Moscow to Cuba and Beyond' vividly evokes the joys as well as the difficulties of life as an expatriate and diplomat under Stalin, Tito and Castro, as well as of the particular demands of diplomatic life in the USA.
Jeanne Sutherland first went to Moscow in 1952 to work on Soviet internal affairs in the British Embassy at the height of the Cold War. In Moscow she met her husband, Iain Sutherland, and later accompanied him on his diplomatic assignments, often working herself and always taking the opportunity to explore the countries in which they lived. In 1977 she completed an MA in Soviet studies and began her research into Soviet (afterwards Russian) education. She is the author of 'Schooling in the New Russia, Innovation and Change, 1984-95'.
'A career centred largely on countries under communist rule calls for special qualities. It calls for a sense of service, willingness to be posted more than once to a capital where the political climate may at times be acutely uncongenial. It requires discretion, careful behaviour, cheerfulness, patience, the skills needed to interpret communist jargon, and ability cautiously to evaluate the signs of change. It helps if the diplomat and his wife take an interest in the history, the culture and the people of the country to which they are assigned and make it their task to develop personal relations within the limits of what is permitted. These qualities Iain and Jeanne Sutherland had in high degree.' - Lord Brimelow, former Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office
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