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Spy in the Archives, A : A Memoir of Cold War Russia
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian students--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--Biography.
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila--Travel--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Sovietologists--United States--Biography.
- Australian students--Moscow--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
- Australian students.
- Sovietologists.
- Cold War.
- Moscow (Russia)--Description and travel.
- Moscow (Russia).
- Soviet Union--Social conditions--1945-1991.
- Soviet Union.
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila.
- Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilievich, 1875-1933.
- Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilievich.
- Local Subjects:
- Australian students--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--Biography.
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila--Travel--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Sovietologists--United States--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 p.)
- Other Title:
- Spy in the Archives
- Spy in the Archives, A
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B.Tauris, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Author biography; Dedication page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1: At the 'Spy College'; Chapter 2: Moscow in 1966; Chapter 3: Foreign Student; Chapter 4: Irina and Igor; Chapter 5: In the Archives; Chapter 6: Novy mir; Chapter 7: Between Two Worlds; Chapter 8: Last Call for Moscow; Postscript; Acknowledgements; Plates
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857734815
- 0857734814
- OCLC:
- 881415379
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