Interloper
Subtitle: Lee Harvey Oswald inside the Soviet Union
By: Peter Savodnik
Publisher: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780465021819
Subjects: Soviet Espionage; Assassination; Homes and haunts; History; Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti; Soviet Union
Other titles: Lee Harvey Oswald inside the Soviet Union
Description: "Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 remains one of the most horrifying-- and hotly debated-- crimes in American history. Because Oswald had briefly defected to the Soviet Union, some historians allege he was a Soviet stooge. But as Peter Savodnik shows in The Interloper, Oswald's time in the U.S.S.R. reveals a stranger, more chilling story. Oswald fled to the Soviet Union looking for a utopia, but quickly became just as dissatisfied with his adopted country as he had been with the United States. When he returned to America, he was more adrift and alienated than ever-- and was soon groping for an outlet for his desperate rage. Drawing on groundbreaking research, including interviews with Oswald's friends and acquaintances, The Interloper brilliantly evokes the shattered psyche not just of Oswald himself, but also of the era he so tragically defined" -- from publisher's web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before Minsk. In search of a new country ; The great escape; title: Minsk. The faux revolutionary ; A Bolshevik among the bourgeoisie ; Minsk to the end of the line ; The experimental department ; An accidental friendship ; A proposal ; "Her name is Marina" ; Disentanglements; title: After Minsk. The great escape, redux ; America.