Agent Dmitri : the secret history of Russia's most daring spy

Draitser, Emil, 1937-2012

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Summary

Sailor, artist, lawyer and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was one of a team of Soviet spies operating in the West between the World Wars. He seduced women to learn great secrets of foreign states, but was then arrested and tortured in the gulags where he began to document the regime he had served's crimes against humanity.

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Main title:

Agent Dmitri : the secret history of Russia's most daring spy / Emil Draitser.

Author:

Draitser, Emil, 1937-

Imprint:

London : Duckworth Overlook, 2012.

Collation:

xxii, 420 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.

Notes:

Originally published: as Stalin's Romeo spy. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2010; London: Duckworth Overlook, 2011.Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780715643778 (pbk)0715643770

Dewey class:

327.1'247'0092327.1247327.12

Local class:

B BYS

Language:

English

Added title:

Stalin's Romeo spy

Subject:

Bystrolëtov, D. A. (Dmitriĭ Aleksandrovich), 1901-1975Intelligence officers -- Soviet Union -- BiographyPolitical prisoners -- Soviet Union -- BiographyIntelligence service -- Soviet UnionBiographyBiography