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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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Book category Books in English Humanities History

• Full title: Spy in the Archives
• Subtitle: A Memoir of Cold War Russia
• Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9781784532956
• ISBN: 1784532959
• ID: 08878236
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 392 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 132 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. April 2015

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