A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784532959
• ISBN13: 9781784532956
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.7"