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A Spy in the Archives - A Memoir of Cold War Russia (Paperback)
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A Spy in the Archives - A Memoir of Cold War Russia (Paperback)
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Moscow in the 1960s was the other side of the Iron Curtain:
mysterious, exotic, even dangerous. In 1966 the historian Sheila
Fitzpatrick travelled to Moscow to research in the Soviet archives.
This was the era of Brezhnev, of a possible 'thaw' in the Cold War,
when the Soviets couldn't decide either to thaw out properly or
re-freeze. Moscow, the world capital of socialism, was renowned for
its drabness. The buses were overcrowded; there were endemic
shortages and endless queues. This was also the age of regular
spying scandals and tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions and it was no
surprise that visiting students were subject to intense scrutiny by
the KGB. Many of Fitzpatrick's friends were involved in espionage
activities - and indeed others were accused of being spies or kept
under close surveillance. In this book, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides
a unique insight into everyday life in Soviet Moscow. Full of drama
and colourful characters, her remarkable memoir highlights the
dangers and drudgery faced by Westerners living under communism.
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