Download or read book My Three Years in Moscow written by Gen. Walter Bedell Smith and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY THREE YEARS IN MOSCOW is a good deal more than an account of diplomatic negotiations. General Smith undertook to study the whole framework of Soviet life-the people, their leaders and their institutions. In this study he had the help of a large and well-informed staff and, in addition, he has had the advantage of closer personal contact with Marshal Stalin than any other Westerner. There are vivid portraits of the men who run the Soviet Union, all the way from the members of the all-powerful Politburo to the director of a small collective farm. There are revealing discussions of the efficiency of Soviet industry and agriculture. In the course of his duties General Smith met numbers of Russians of all kinds, and his pages contain fascinating sketches of them, thus building a picture of the life of the ordinary man in a collectivized economy. The American Ambassador had his own housekeeping problems, like the incident of the supply of fresh eggs, which eventually involved ponderous governmental machinery. MY THREE YEARS IN MOSCOW is one of the important books of our time distinguished in its character and permanent in historical value. “...casts more light on the Soviet system, on Marshal Stalin and on the tortuous twists and turns of Soviet policy than anything published thus far.”—The New York Times