Malcolm Mackintosh

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Malcolm Mackintosh
Born(1921-12-25)25 December 1921
Died20 November 2011(2011-11-20) (aged 89)

John Malcolm Mackintosh,

Sovietologist, and author.[1]

Early life and war service

Mackintosh's father was dean of the

Allied Control Commission. While in Sofia he met his wife, Lena Grafova, daughter of a White Russian exile; the couple married in 1946.[2]

Post-war years

Returning to the UK in 1946, Mackintosh resumed his studies at Glasgow, graduating with a first class degree in History and

Foreign Office, but he was employed by them as an interpreter in 1955 and 1956, when Marshal Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev visited Britain.[3]

In 1960 he joined the

Foreign Office as an intelligence analyst. In 1968 he was appointed to the Cabinet Office as senior adviser on Soviet affairs. In 1973 he was a member of the delegation that visited the Soviet Union with foreign secretary Alec Douglas-Home, being described by Soviet officials as a falsifier of history - a description for which he received an apology after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He retired in 1987, amongst his final achievements having been as one of the advisers who persuaded Margaret Thatcher that it would be possible to "do business with" Mikhail Gorbachev
.

In retirement he continued to lecture and write, and took up a number of academic appointments, including at

International Institute of Strategic Studies
.

Publications

  • Khrushchev and the Soviet Army, 1958
  • Strategy and Tactics of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1962
  • Juggernaut: a History of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1967
  • The Evolution of the Warsaw Pact, 1969
  • Soviet Foreign Policy : Its Many Facets and Its Real Objectives (contrib), 1972
  • The Middle East and the International System I. The Impact of the 1973 War (contrib), 1975

References

  1. ^ a b "Malcolm Mackintosh". The Herald (Glasgow). 8 December 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/104889. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ "Malcolm Mackintosh". The Daily Telegraph. 1 January 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
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