Bacon in Moscow by James Birch travel writing Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s

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participant observation and oral history work

Bacon in Moscow by James Birch travel writing Ronald Reagan and Margaret ThatcherThis funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount the ground breaking retrospective of Francis Bacon's work at the newly refurbished Central House of Artists, Moscow in 1988. Side lined by the British establishment, Birch found himself at the heart of a honey trap and the focus for a picaresque cast of Soviet officials, attaches and politicians under the forbidding eye of the KGB as