New Mobilization?

... 1950s, which called for citizens to seek out “communist spies” everywhere, with mass demonstrations and protests. Soviet society engaged in a kind of passive protest that manifested itself in an enthusiasm for imported goods and the prestige attached ... ... United States during the 1930s had effectively disappeared. At some point people in both countries started to look at this “spy mania” and the arms race with a healthy dose of irony – just watch a James Bond film or listen to some of Vladimir Vysotsky’s ...