Memoirs of a Bourgeois Falsifier |
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Author:
| Rigby, T. H. |
ISBN: | 978-1-925984-51-4 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2020 |
Publisher: | Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited
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Imprint: | Arden |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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T. H. Rigby was a leading pioneer in Soviet Studies during the Cold War. In this memoir he recounts his career as researcher, teacher, public intellectual and sometime adviser to MI6, including fascinating accounts of the British Embassy in Moscow in the 1950s and of his later visits to the USSR, whose leaders labelled him a 'bourgeois falsifier'.
T. H. Rigby was a leading pioneer in Soviet Studies during the Cold War. In this memoir he recounts his career as researcher, teacher, public intellectual and sometime adviser to MI6, including fascinating accounts of the British Embassy in Moscow in the 1950s and of his later visits to the USSR, whose leaders labelled him a 'bourgeois falsifier'.