Gromyko's Diplomatic Thinking And Practice On

Andrei Gromyko is an excellent diplomat. He was selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union in 1939 and then began to stand out in the diplomatic circle. Since he became foreign minister in 1956, he had been a figure of some consequence in soviet political especially diplomatic circles. He retired in 1988 and died in 1989.In the history of soviet diplomacy, Gromyko is a very important figure who lived in a volatile and turbulent era in which the Soviet Union emerged from the economic blockade and armed siege imposed by the world's major capitalist countries and developed into a superpower in the world. In such an era, the interests of major powers were tangled together, which called for excellent diplomats and politicians and Gromyko is one of the seasoned diplomats that emerged from that era. With firm faith in the social system of the Soviet Union, Gromyko, the logo of soviet diplomacy, skillfully manuveured among various states.The diplomatic thoughts of Gromyko, to a large extent, is a reflection of the thoughts of the highest-ranked policy deciders in the Soviet Union. It shows that under the hierarchic diplomatic system and the whole strictly-ranked political system of the Soviet Union, soviet officials, guided by the sense of hierarchy, were completely loyal to the highest organ of power within the communist party. During his tenure, Gromyko's diplomatic thoughts and practices had experienced several shifts that reflect the changes of international patterns and the shifts of the policy focuses of the Soviet Union. But as has been mentioned before, because being a diplomat is a special vocation as well as due to the hierarchic political system of the Soviet Union, Gromyko also showed nealy stiff loyality toward the supreme organ of power in his diplomacy, which also provides us with some food for thought.