New Mobilization?

... travel to capitalist countries. The mentality of “seeking out spies” everywhere that prevailed in the Soviet Union and the United States during the 1930s had effectively disappeared. At some point people in both countries started to look at this “spy mania” and the arms race with a healthy dose of irony – just watch a James Bond film or listen to some of Vladimir Vysotsky’s songs and you will understand. Robert Legvold: U.S.-Russia Relations: The Price of Cold War In 1938, Arkady Gaidar wrote his now iconic novel Drummer’s Fate, which captures the mood of the 1930s perfectly. The story takes on three topics that are emblematic of the time: the sense of the inevitability ...