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A Spy In The Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia By Sheila Fitzpatrick I.B. Tauris Moscow, June 1968. A young Oxford doctoral student is outed as a spy in a Soviet newspaper. It could have been a devastating event for an ambitious young academic but, in a comic twist worthy of an Evelyn Waugh novel, the episode seems to …
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