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For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career…

— Malcolm Nance

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I…

— Nelson DeMille

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

— Vladimir Putin

Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by Graham Greene,…

— Kim Young-ha

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few…

— Nelson DeMille

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a…

— John Irving

I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

— Kevin J. Anderson

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

— Woody Allen

If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have…

— Debra Dean

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that…

— Elif Batuman