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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[ In the General Staff on the eve of coming changes : Autobiographical notes of an officer]
Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole, 2004 720 p. [16 ill.] Serie: Voennye memuary Hardcover. 13 x 20 cm ISBN: 5860901070 Language: Russian
Vasilii Makarov (b. 1926) started his military career as a common soldier and finished as a high ranking officer in the center of strategic studies in the General Staff. His memoir covers all his 46 years of military service, but highlights his years in the General Staff, 1975-1989: methods of making strategic decisions; the story of the pilot Belenko and his flight to Japan; the fall of the Korean Boeing-747 over Sakhalin; the flight of Mateas Rust, internal disputes about the Afghan war, etc. Name and geographic indices.
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