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.
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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.
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Ingram Content Group
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Spy in the archives
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1780767803
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Fitzpatrick, Sheila-- Travel-- Russia (Federation)-- Moscow.
Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilievich,1875-1933.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila.
Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilievich,1875-1933.
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Australian students-- Russia (Federation)-- Moscow, Biography.
Cold War.
Sovietologists-- United States, Biography.
Australian students.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
HISTORY-- Europe-- Eastern.
HISTORY-- Europe-- Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY-- Europe-- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.