Red Files

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RED FILES
Feifer's fresh assessment oi the iormer Soviet Union and the Cold War turns up some original and provocative material This informal, lively survey gracefully synthesizes recent scholarship.'
Praise for George Feifer's previous boolts:
MOSCOW FAREWELL
"Moscow Farewell ought to be—and I don't doubt will be—widely read."
—New York Times Book Review
"Feifer's penetrating observations seem to catch the soul of the Soviet citizen, recording for the West something of the taste of the country and its people his narrative style digs like a sharp spade." —London Tribune
"[Feifer] has written a book with several layers of brilliance. He is that rare being, a passionate and compassionately critical observer whose eye and pen run true together." —Daily Mail
JUSTICE IN MOSCOW
"The most interesting, perceptive, and refreshing book by an American on life in the Soviet Union since Time Out of Mind." —Newsweek
"This is an entrancing book. What it gives is a vivid picture of... Tovább

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RED FILES
Feifer's fresh assessment oi the iormer Soviet Union and the Cold War turns up some original and provocative material This informal, lively survey gracefully synthesizes recent scholarship.'
Praise for George Feifer's previous boolts:
MOSCOW FAREWELL
"Moscow Farewell ought to be—and I don't doubt will be—widely read."
—New York Times Book Review
"Feifer's penetrating observations seem to catch the soul of the Soviet citizen, recording for the West something of the taste of the country and its people his narrative style digs like a sharp spade." —London Tribune
"[Feifer] has written a book with several layers of brilliance. He is that rare being, a passionate and compassionately critical observer whose eye and pen run true together." —Daily Mail
JUSTICE IN MOSCOW
"The most interesting, perceptive, and refreshing book by an American on life in the Soviet Union since Time Out of Mind." —Newsweek
"This is an entrancing book. What it gives is a vivid picture of courts at work, and therefore, since it is very good reporting, as sharp a picture of life and people."
—The Economist
MESSAGE FROM MOSCOW
"One of the best books about the Soviet Union to be written for many years He has the talents of a good novelist." —New York Review of Books
"The most perceptive impression we have had through Western eyes for decades of the feel of life and its changing style in Moscow and Leningrad."
—The Guardian (London)
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"A gripping look at the Cold War from the American and Russian perspectives culled from the secret files. Feifer's acute observations and seasoned wisdom dismantle many myths "
-Phillip Knightley, author of The Philby Files and The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century
For over seventy years, a well-oiled propaganda machine run by the KGB and the Communist Party churned out misinformation about the Eastern bloc for Western audiences. As Russian scholar and critically acclaimed author George Feifer points out in this compelling new book, until recently, not just foreigners but Russians themselves lacked a clear idea of what had really been happening in crucial facets of Soviet life.
In Red Files: Secrets from the Russian Archives, Feifer, armed with new information and his penetrating first-hand insights, presents a rich and sophisticated account of four pivotal areas of Russian life: secret KGB machinations and victories; the race to land on the moon; Soviet sports diplomacy; and the workings of the Party propaganda machine. Utilizing primarily never-before-seen documents and photographs from Russia's premiere image repository, The Russian State Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (RGAKFD), Feifer shatters many of our longest-held myths about the Cold War.
Red Files also deepens our understanding of the most intriguing figures from these areas of Soviet life, including atomic spy Theodore Hall, Soviet agents George Blake, Lona and Morris Cohen, the moon mission's "Chief Designer" Sergei Korolev, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, and gymnast Ogia Korbut. Illustrated with over eighty photographs, Red Files is a powerful and lasting work of history.
George Feifer's first trip to Russia was in 1959, when he was a guide at the groundbreaking American Exhibition there. He was an exchange student at Moscow State University during 1961, after which he often visited as a journalist. His last look was in 1999, when he observed the December parliamentary elections for the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe. His scores of articles about the country have appeared in such publications as Harpers, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, the Boston Globe, and the Saturday Review. Feifer's eleven books include Message from Moscow, Solzhenitzyn, Our Motherland, Moscow Farewell, The Girl from Petrovka, and most recently, Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb. A graduate of Columbia University's Russian Institute, he lives in Roxbury, Connecticut. Vissza