Valentin Falin
Valentin Falin Baлeнтин Фaлин | |
|---|---|
| Head of the International Department of the Central Committee | |
| In office 30 September 1988 – 29 August 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Anatoly Dobrynin |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
| Secretary of the 28th Central Committee | |
| In office 14 July 1990 – 29 August 1991 | |
| Full member of the 27th, 28th Central Committee | |
| In office 25 April 1989 – 29 August 1991 | |
| Candidate member of the 27th Central Committee | |
| In office 6 March 1986 – 25 April 1989 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Valentin Mikhaylovich Falin 3 April 1926 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | February 22, 2018 (aged 91) Moscow, Russia |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Valentin Mikhaylovich Falin (Template:Lang-ru) (3 April 1926 – 22 February 2018[1]) was a Soviet diplomat and politician.
Early life
Falin was born in Leningrad. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1950.
Career
From 1951 to 1958 he worked at the USSR Foreign Ministry.[2] From 1971 to 1978 he was the Ambassador of the USSR to the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1978 he was appointed First Deputy Chief of the International Information Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU,[3] a post he left in January 1983 for personal reasons.[4] From 1982 to 1986 he was a political observer, then editor and chief editor in the newspaper Izvestia.
On March 10, 1986, Falin was elected by the Council of Sponsors of the Novosti Press Agency to the position of chairman of the APN board.[5] In 1988–1991 he was the Chief of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[4] Following the failed 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, he left government service.
In 1992 to 2000 he worked at Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg in Germany. He returned to Russia in 2000 and lived in Moscow.
Bibliography
- Die letzte Nuklearexplosion. Изд-во АПН, Москва, 1986. — 309 стр.
- Helden. München: Psychosozial-Verlag-Union, 1987. — 159 S.
- Ziele und Voraussetzungen eines geeinten Europas Vorstellung des Projektes Strategien und Optionen für die Zukunft Europas. Gütersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann-Stiftung, 1988. — 39 S.
- Politische Erinnerungen. München: Verlag Droemer Knaur, 1993—518 S.
- Zweite Front. Die Interessenkonflikte in der Anti-Hitler-Koalition. München: Verlag Droemer Knaur, 1995.
- Konflikte im Kreml. München: Blessing, 1997. — 317 S.
- Alexander Kluge. Valentin Falin. — Rotbuch Verlag, 1995. ISBN 9783880228177
References
- ^ Gazeta.ru, 22 февраля 2018. Умер Валентин Фалин
- ^ Валентин Фалин возглавил экспертный совет Международного комитета Интернациональной России — ИА REGNUM
- ^ Lewytzkyj B. (Ed) (1984) Who's Who In The Soviet Union. Munich: K.G. Saur.
- ^ a b Garthoff, Raymond L. (1994). The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. p. 172n86. ISBN 0-8157-3060-8.
- ^ "Valentin Falin Elected Chairman of APN Board". Soviet Life (356): 29. May 1986.
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- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the USSR State Prize
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