Fridrikh Firsov (b. 1931), a historian of the Communist International, now lives in Boston, continues his studies in emigration. He recently published Sekrety Kommunisticheskogo Internatsionala: Shifroperepiska (2011). The current book is his memoirs about his work in the citadel of Marxism-Leninism, the research institute whose main function was publishing the classic works in the field. (0.595 kg.)