For over 70 years, a propaganda machine run by the KGB & the Communist Party churned out misinfo. about the Eastern bloc for Western audiences. Not just foreigners but Russians themselves lacked a clear idea of what had really been happening in crucial facets of Soviet life. This is an account of 4 areas of Russian life: secret KGB machinations & victories; the race to land on the moon; Soviet sports diplomacy; & the workings of the Party propaganda machine. Shatters many of our longest-held myths about the Cold War, & deepens our understanding of the most intriguing figures of Soviet life, such as atomic spy Theodore Hall, Soviet agents George Blake, Lona & Morris Cohen, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, & gymnast Olga Korbut. Photos.