Stepping Down from the Star: A Soviet Defector's Story

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 287, pencil erasure on endpaper. The story of a Soviet defector to the United States--the wife of the First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC. The account of her escape to freedom is as exciting as any fiction, filled with secret codes and signals, lookouts, safe houses, aliases, vicious threats, narrow escapes and a terrifying encounter with KGB security officer--and later controversial defector himself--Vitaly Yurchenko. Condition: very good, very good.

Keywords: Atomic and Cold War, KGB, FBI, Vitaly Yurchenko, Surveillance, Freedom, Diplomats, Political Asylum, Yelena Mitrokhina

ISBN: 0399131957

[Book #40110]

Price: $25.65

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