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Passports and Spies

Passports and Spies

FromThe LRB Podcast


Passports and Spies

FromThe LRB Podcast

ratings:
Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Oct 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Sheila Fitzpatrick talks to Tom about the perils of doing archive research in the Soviet Union, how she used Moscow telephone directories to investigate Stalin’s purges, and the multiple passports and identities she’s gone through in her academic career.Find further reading in the LRB on the episode page: https://lrb.me/fitzpatrickpodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Oct 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

On the LRB Podcast you'll find recent (and not so recent) pieces read by the author; our 'Close Reading’ series, in which Seamus Perry and Mark Ford consider 20th century poets through the lens of the pieces written about them in the LRB; and a range of other conversations on topics and writers covered in the paper.