James Bond's Socialist Rivals

In August 1973, the large and growing television audience of the Soviet Union first laid eyes on what would become its quintessential if fictitious hero spy. He was nothing liketo global fame in the 1960s. By contrast, Shtirlits made his middle-aged man on a meditative stroll in wintry woods,to the score of a very slow piano rendition of the show'swistful signature theme. The Cold War East, the...