Abstract
Anatoly Dobrinin, In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents (1962–1986) Since Stalin's times, Soviet ambassadors have often acted as mere cogs in a machine whose operators sat in Moscow. Yet, the author of this memoir was anything but a cog in the intricate machinery of the U.S.-Soviet relations. A brilliant career diplomat, ambassador to Washington from 1962 to 1986, and witness to every superpower summit from 1955 to 1990, Anatoly Dobrynin was privileged to attend Politburo discussions and to report regularly to many Soviet leaders, from Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev. He served as a direct, at times unique, conduit between presidents and general secretaries, aided in this role by his wit, affable, gregarious nature, and razor-sharp memory. Even after the Soviet collapse, the retired Dobrynin continued to evoke enough respect among the Russian bureaucracy to be able to review top classified records that were no longer accessible to other Soviet veterans.
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