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A Spy in the Archives : A Memoir of Cold War Russia, PDF eBook

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

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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.

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