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A Spy in the Archives
Sheila Fitzpatrick
其他書名
A Memoir of Cold War Russia
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013-11-06
主題Political Science / World / Russian & SovietBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / Russia / GeneralHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
ISBN08577348149780857734815
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UbiKDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.