George Walden

George Gordon Harvey Walden (born 15 September 1939) is a journalist and former British Conservative politician. He was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, London, and at Jesus College, Cambridge and also spent periods in Moscow, Hong Kong and Harvard universities, as well as the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris.

Walden worked for the British Foreign Office between 1962 and 1983, where he specialized in Russia, China and France. He was elected MP for Buckingham between 1983 and his retirement at the 1997 general election. He served as Minister for Higher Education between 1985 and 1987. His memoirs, entitled "Lucky George", were published in 1999. His other books include "Time to Emigrate", "New Elites: A Career in the Masses", "Who is a Dandy" and "God won't save America".

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* [http://www.yale.edu/annals/Reviews/review_texts/Walden_on_Getty_Ass._Newspapers_10.22.99.html] 'The evil that Stalin did'. An article by George Walden discussing a letter from Nikolai Bukharin to Stalin. Published online by Yale University Press.