Browsing by Author "Chekin, Leonid S."

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    • First Secretary Gierek, President Carter, and the president’s Polish interpreter: An analysis of an awkward diplomatic encounter based on new archival evidence 

      Chekin, Leonid S. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-05)
      President Jimmy Carter’s visit to Poland (29–31 December 1977) was the first stop on a nine-day long foreign trip that also took Carter to Iran, India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France, and Belgium. This was Carter’s first and only presidential visit to a nation in the Soviet bloc and his first personal encounter with a leader of a Communist government. His host, Edward Gierek, first secretary of the ...

    • Introducing Svalbard Studies 

      Chekin, Leonid S.; Rogatchevski, Andrei (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-01)
      Svalbard, or “cool edge” in Old Norse, is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It has no indigenous population and some 60% of its landmass is covered by ice. Yet its rich wildlife and mineral resources, as well as spectacular sights, have been attracting a great deal of commercial interest ever since Willem Barentsz discovered the archipelago in 1596 and named it Spitsbergen (“peaked mountains”). ...