The Spy Who Changed History
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The Spy Who Changed History

  1. 496 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Spy Who Changed History

About this book

On a sunny September day in 1931, Soviet spy Stanislav Shumovsky walked down the gangplank of the SS Europa and into New York, concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students. Joseph Stalin had sent him to acquire American secrets to help close the USSR's yawning technology gap, and the road to victory began in the classrooms and laboratories of MIT.Using information gleaned from this mission, the USSR first transformed itself into a military powerhouse able to defeat Nazi Germany. Then in 1947, American innovation exfiltrated by Shumovsky made it possible to build and unveil the most advanced strategic bomber in the world. Later, other MIT-trained Soviet spies would go on to acquire the secrets of the Manhattan Project.In this thrilling history, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a journey through Stalin's most audacious intelligence operation, piecing together every aspect of Shumovsky's life and character using information derived from American and Russian archives.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Maps
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. ‘Son of the Working People’
  8. 2. ‘We Catch Up or They Will Crush Us’
  9. 3. ‘What the Country Needs is a Real Big Laugh’
  10. 4. ‘Agent 001
  11. 5. ‘A Nice Fellow to Talk To’
  12. 6. ‘Is This Really My Motherland?’
  13. 7. ‘Questionable from Conception’
  14. 8. ‘The Wily Armenian’
  15. 9. Whistle Stop Inspections
  16. 10. Glory to Stalin’s Falcons
  17. 11. Back in the USSR
  18. 12. Project ‘AIR’
  19. 13. ENORMOZ
  20. 14. Mission Accomplished
  21. Post-scriptum
  22. Notes
  23. Appendix I: Biography of Stanislav Shumovsky
  24. Appendix II: NKVD and FBI Reports on Stanislav Shumovsky
  25. Acknowledgements
  26. Index
  27. Copyright