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Podcast: New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies
Episode: Calder Walton, "Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Description: Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West (Simon & Schuster, 2024) is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin's means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing "unprecedented" about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. It was simply business as usual, new means used for old ends.The Cold War started long before 1945. But the West fought back after World War II, mounting its own s...