A Spy in the archives

In 1968, acclaimed historian of twentieth-century Russia, Sheila Fitzpatrick, was "outed" as a spy in Russia. The British government had recruited her while she was a student at Oxford. During the course of her research in Russian archives, she spent time in Moscow reviewing the files of the Soviet Commission after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Despite the attention of the KGB, and the impossibility of finding a winter coat, Sheila loved Moscow and had firm friendships there.