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A Spy in the Archives

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

A Spy in the Archives

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

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About the book

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 th...Show more

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9781784532956

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2015

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1

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A Spy in the Archives

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