YAKOVLEV, Alexander

YAKOVLEV, Alexander. Russian, b. 1923. Genres: International relations/ Current affairs, Politics/Government. Career: Worked as teacher, journalist, and Communist Party functionary in Yaroslavl, Russia, 1945-53; Central Committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, worked in Department for Science and Education, 1953-56, staff member, 1960-69, head of Propaganda Department, 1969-73, 1985-86, Soviet ambassador to Canada, 1973-83; USSR Academy of Sciences, director of Institute for World Economy and International Relations, 1983-85; Communist Party of the Soviet Union, secretary and member of Politbureau, 1985-90, appointed to Presidential Council, 1990, expelled from the party, 1991; Russian Presidential Council, 1990-91, state counselor for special missions, 1991, and chairperson of Presidential Commission on the Rehabilitation of Political Prisoners, 1992-; Russian Federal Department on Television and Radio, chief, 1993-95; International Democracy Foundation, president, 1993-. Publications: (ed.) Perestroika Annual, 1989; Realism as the Land of Perestroika, 1990; The Torments of Life-Reading, 1991; What We Were Going to Do in the Soviet Union, 1991; The Fate of Marxism in Russia, 1993; The Bitter Chalice, 1994. Author of other books. Chairperson, Russian Britannica. Author of articles on international relations, democratic processes in the Soviet Union, and the social and economic problems of perestroika. Address: Rehabilitation Commission, Ilyinka St. 8/4, 103132 Moscow, Russia.