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Memoirs of a bourgeois falsifier / T. H. Rigby ; with a foreword and an epilogue by Kate Rigby ; edited and prepared for publication by Kevin Windle.
Van Pelt Library DK38.7.R54 A3 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rigby, T. H. (Thomas Henry), 1925- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sovietologists--Australia--Biography.
- Sovietologists.
- Rigby, T. H. (Thomas Henry), 1925-.
- Rigby, T. H.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 363 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- North Melbourne, Vic : Australian Scholarly, [2019]
- Summary:
- "T. H. Rigby, 'Harry' Rigby to many colleagues and friends, was a leading pioneer in Soviet Studies during the Cold War. In this memoir he recounts his career as researcher, teacher, public intellectual and sometime adviser to MI6. He includes fascinating accounts of his time in the British Embassy in Moscow in the 1950s and of his later visits to the USSR, whose leadership labelled him a 'bourgeois falsifier', a title he wore with some pride. His story is also of a family and his inauspicious beginnings in a working-class district of Melbourne, his education in the 1930s and 1940s, war service in New Guinea and early interest in political thought. He writes of his beloved wife Norma and their growing family against a background of sweeping change in 20th century Australia"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- 1 The Twig Is Bent p. 1
- 2 The 'Big School' Years p. 25
- 3 Coey High p. 45
- 4 Windows on the World p. 62
- 5 False Starts p. 86
- 6 Base Wallah p. 99
- 7 Life Choices p. 121
- 8 London: First Bite p. 143
- 9 Bush Capital p. 168
- 10 London Again p. 185
- 11 To Moscow at Last p. 191
- 12 Russia Again p. 208
- 13 Putting Down Roots p. 228
- 14 Some Sixties! p. 247
- 15 Fresh Fields p. 264
- 16 And Wider Horizons p. 278
- 17 Aftet the Deluge p. 290
- 18 Prime Time p. 302
- 19 Steady as We Go p. 317
- 20 Towards Sea Change p. 327
- 21 Soldiering On p. 346.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1925984516
- 9781925984514
- OCLC:
- 1132420821
- Publisher Number:
- 99986231377
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