Joshua A. Sanborn is David M. '70 and Linda Roth Professor of History at Lafayette College, USA. He is the author of Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (2014) and Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925 (2003).

• List of Illustrations ForewordIntroduction: War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells, 1897)Chapter One: From Russia with Love (Ian Fleming, 1957)Chapter Two: Andromeda Nebula (Ivan Efremov, 1957)Chapter Three: The Station Chief’s Mistake (Oleg Shmelev and Vladimir Vostokov, 1966)Chapter Four: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick, 1968)Chapter Five: The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1969)Chapter Six: Seventeen Moments of Spring (Tatiana Lioznova, 1973)Chapter Seven: The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy, 1984)Chapter Eight: The Doomed City (Boris and Arkady Strugatskii, 1988)Conclusion: The Americans (Joe Weisberg, 2013-18)

Sanborn’s utterly absorbing book on the intersection of politics and fiction in the cold war era gives us a new way to think about what culture itself is.

Joshua A. Sanborn is David M. '70 and Linda Roth Professor of History at Lafayette College, USA. He is the author of Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (2014) and Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925 (2003).

• List of Illustrations ForewordIntroduction: War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells, 1897)Chapter One: From Russia with Love (Ian Fleming, 1957)Chapter Two: Andromeda Nebula (Ivan Efremov, 1957)Chapter Three: The Station Chief’s Mistake (Oleg Shmelev and Vladimir Vostokov, 1966)Chapter Four: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick, 1968)Chapter Five: The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1969)Chapter Six: Seventeen Moments of Spring (Tatiana Lioznova, 1973)Chapter Seven: The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy, 1984)Chapter Eight: The Doomed City (Boris and Arkady Strugatskii, 1988)Conclusion: The Americans (Joe Weisberg, 2013-18)

Sanborn’s utterly absorbing book on the intersection of politics and fiction in the cold war era gives us a new way to think about what culture itself is.

Joshua A. Sanborn is David M. '70 and Linda Roth Professor of History at Lafayette College, USA. He is the author of Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (2014) and Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925 (2003).

• List of Illustrations ForewordIntroduction: War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells, 1897)Chapter One: From Russia with Love (Ian Fleming, 1957)Chapter Two: Andromeda Nebula (Ivan Efremov, 1957)Chapter Three: The Station Chief’s Mistake (Oleg Shmelev and Vladimir Vostokov, 1966)Chapter Four: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick, 1968)Chapter Five: The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1969)Chapter Six: Seventeen Moments of Spring (Tatiana Lioznova, 1973)Chapter Seven: The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy, 1984)Chapter Eight: The Doomed City (Boris and Arkady Strugatskii, 1988)Conclusion: The Americans (Joe Weisberg, 2013-18)

Sanborn’s utterly absorbing book on the intersection of politics and fiction in the cold war era gives us a new way to think about what culture itself is.