A Spy in the Archives
$61.37
- Paperback
356 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2013
Summary
In 1968 historian Sheila Fitzpatrick was ‘outed’ by the Russian newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya as all but a spy for Western intelligence. She was in Moscow at the time, working in Soviet archives for her doctoral thesis on AV Lunacharsky, the first Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
Despite KGB attention, and the impossibility of finding a suitable winter coat, Sheila felt more at ease in Moscow than in Britain-a feeling cemented by her friendships wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522861181 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522861180 |
| Author: | Sheila Fitzpatrick |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 356 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2013 |
| Weight: | 371g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 135mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Sheila Fitzpatrick is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, and Emerita Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Born and educated in Australia, Fitzpatrick moved in the early 1970s to the United States, where she made her career as a Soviet historian. Author of The Russian Revolution and Everyday Stalinism, she is considered a founder in the field of Soviet history. A Spy in the Archives, a memoir of Moscow in the Cold War published in 2013, was a National Biography award finalist in 2014.
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