{"product_id":"the-soviet-spy-thriller-9781433191909","title":"The Soviet Spy Thriller","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is commonly held among scholars that there was no mass literature in the Soviet Union during the Stalin years. What should we do, then, with Lev Ovalov's \u003ci\u003eMajor Pronin\u003c\/i\u003e or with the stories of Lev Sheinin, which began to appear in the mid-1930s? And what about Nikolai Shpanov's post-war best-sellers? As \u003ci\u003eThe Soviet Spy Thriller\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates, the Soviet authorities did not like to admit that they published low-quality literature aimed at the uncultured masses, but they greatly valued its propaganda value. These works represented a break with the Red Pinkerton' tradition of the 1920s: the genre was being reinvented along new lines, with a new seriousness, and documentary pretensions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe building of a new kind of spy thriller also required a new enemy. Between the late 1930s and the early 1950s, the Soviet spy thriller reflects the shift from an obsession with class to a new preoccupation with nationality, as the Soviet Union constructed a new identity for i\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments – James Bond 007: Behind the Iron Curtain. Introductory Thoughts – Pioneers – Nikolai Shpanov, or the Road to Serious-mindedness – Lev Ovalov and Lev Sheinin, or the Enemy Within – Aleksandr Avdeenko, or the Empire Moves Westward – Roman Kim, or the Writer as Agent – Craftsmen – Iulian Semenov, or the Soviet Man as Undercover Agent – Ovidii Gorchakov, or the Agent as Writer – Vadim Kozhevnikov, or the Reader as Agent – Aleksandr Prokhanov: Back to the Future – Conclusions – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039691571543,"sku":"9781433191909","price":71.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433191909.jpg?v=1750944499","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-soviet-spy-thriller-9781433191909","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}