Англичанин Сталина. Несколько жизней Гая Бёрджесса, джокера кембриджской шпионской колоды

Ėta kniga o Gae Bërdzhesse — nepriznannom genii shpionazha i samom ėkst͡sentrichnom agente sovetskoĭ razvedki. V 1951 godu Bërdzhess bezhal v SSSR i v techenie dvenadt͡sati let dobrosovestno sluzhil prini͡avsheĭ ego strane, odnako, ostavai͡asʹ anglichaninom do mozga kosteĭ, tak i ne sumel prisposobitʹsi͡a k zhizni v stalinskoĭ Rossii. Dei͡atelʹnostʹ istinnogo lidera Kembridzhskoĭ pi͡aterki do sikh por ostaetsi͡a obʺektom vsevozmozhnykh izmyshleniĭ i spekuli͡at͡siĭ, sovremenniki i kuratory iz KGB dai͡ut samye protivorechivye i neodnoznachnye kharakteristiki ego lichnosti. Ėndri͡u Louni udalosʹ sozdatʹ mnogoplanovyĭ portret nezauri͡adnogo, porochnogo intellektuala, predstaviteli͡a po­kolenii͡a zapadnoĭ levoĭ intelligent͡sii, kotoroe v 30—40­kh godakh KhKh veka okazalosʹ v plenu kommunisticheskoĭ ideologii.

This book is about Guy Burgess, the unrecognized genius of espionage and the most eccentric agent of Soviet intelligence. In 1951, Burgess fled to the USSR and served his host country faithfully for twelve years, however, remaining British to the core, he failed to adapt to life in Stalinist Russia. The activities of the true leader of the Cambridge Five still remain the object of all kinds of fabrications and speculations, contemporaries and curators from the KGB give the most contradictory and ambiguous characteristics of his personality. Andrew Loney managed to create a multifaceted portrait of an outstanding, vicious intellectual, a representative of the generation of the Western left intelligentsia, which in the 30—40s of the twentieth century was captured by communist ideology.