Spy in the Archives

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...