The Englishman of Stalin. Several Lives of Guy Burgess, the Joker of the Cambridge Spy Deck

Original title: Stalin's Englishman. The Lives Of Guy Burgess. This book is about Guy Burgess - an unrecognized genius of espionage and the most eccentric agent of Soviet intelligence. In 1951, Burgess fled to the USSR and diligently served the country... that accepted him for twelve years, however, remaining an Englishman to the core, he was never able to adapt to life in Stalin's Russia. The activities of the true leader of the Cambridge Five continue to be the subject of various speculations and conjectures, contemporaries and curators from the KGB give the most contradictory and ambiguous characterizations of his personality. Andrew Lownie managed to create a multifaceted portrait of an extraordinary, flawed intellectual, a representative of a generation of the Western left intelligentsia that found itself trapped in Communist ideology in the 1930s and 1940s.