Sergo Mikoyan

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Sergo Mikoyan
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Sergo Anastasi Mikoyan (

Old Bolshevik and high level Soviet statesman and adviser to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
.

Biography

Early life and education

Mikoyan was born to Ashkhen and Anastas Mikoyan in Moscow on June 5, 1929. He joined the Communist Party in 1953. In 1952, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Mikoyan continued to live in Moscow until 1955. During the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, Mikoyan accompanied his father Anastas Mikoyan, as his executive secretary, to Cuba in high level negotiations with Fidel Castro and documented much of his father's private reminisces about the crisis.[3] From 1970 onwards, he was the chief editor of the leading Soviet journal on Latin American affairs, Latinskaya Amerika, a Russian-language monthly.[2] During perestroika, Mikoyan was also a prominent supporter of the Karabakh movement.[4]

Scholarly life

Beginning in the late 1980s, Mikoyan was a participant in several joint Soviet/Russian-American international conferences on the crisis including the Harvard University sponsored conference at Cambridge, Massachusetts in October 1987, the Moscow conference in 1989, the Antigua conference in 1991 and the Havana conference in January 1992.[5] He also participated at the 40th Anniversary Conference of the crisis held from October 10 through October 12, 2002.[6] Mikoyan later became a chief researcher at the Institute of Peace at the Russian Academy of Sciences and held a professorship at Georgetown University.[7]

Ever since the

leftist revolutionary movements in the region, most notably Cuba, and its leaders such as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.[1]

Among the American historians and journalists Mikoyan has collaborated with are William Taubman, Jon Lee Anderson, Georgie Anne Geyer and Irving Louis Horowitz.

Mikoyan died of leukemia in a Moscow clinic on March 7, 2010.[7]

Selected works

  • (in Russian) США: Государство Пoлитикa, Bыбopы [The USA: Government, Politics, Elections]. Moscow, 1969.
  • (in Russian) Kyбa строит социализм [Cuba Builds Socialism]. Moscow, 1976.
  • (in Russian) "The Caribbean Crisis in Retrospect" in Latinskaya Amerika. no. 1 (January 1988), pp. 40–80.
  • Mikoyan, Anastas and Mikoyan, Sergo (ed.) The Memoirs of Anastas Mikoyan: The Path of Struggle, Vol 1. Translated from Russian. Sphinx Press, 1988
    ISBN 0-943071-04-6
  • Stalinism as I saw it. Occasional Paper. Washington:
    Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
    , 1991.
  • "The Future of the Soviet-Cuban Relationship" in The Russians Aren't Coming: New Soviet Policy in Latin America, ed. Wayne S. Smith. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992.
  • The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November, ed. Svetlana Savranskaya, Cold War International History Project. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Notes

  1. ^
    Armenian Academy of Sciences
    , 1981, p. 542.
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-7425-2269-5
  3. ISBN 0-88738-794-2
  4. ^ Libaridian, Gerard, ed. (1988). The Karabagh File: Documents and Facts on the Question of Mountainous Karabagh, 1918-1988. Cambridge, MA: Zoryan Institute. p. 69.
  5. ISBN 0-8157-0102-0
  6. ^ The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective After Forty Years. George Washington University.
  7. ^
    RFE/RL
    . March 8, 2010. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
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