Bond Behind the Iron Curtain
The Book Collector presents an astonishing new book on Bond.
Bond Behind the Iron Curtain is written and edited by James Fleming.
The story starts with the full-page attack on James Bond, Ian Fleming and the film of Dr No that appeared in Izvestiya even before the film had been released. The whole Bond phenomenon is attacked as pornography, capitalist filth and anti-socialist poison.
Here, translated into English for the first time, you will also find the long Russian critique of the Bond films by Maja Turovskaya published in 1966, and the extremely interesting account that appeared in Prague the following year of Sean Connery’s rise to fame. A bonus is the Bulgarian attempt to publish a novel in which Bond was killed.
If you want to know about the ‘bourgeois inferiority complex’ that was the standard party line to mock anyone who enjoyed the adventures of James Bond, this is the place to start – the only place, as it happens.
Featuring 16 rarely seen illustrations and an essay by Błażej Mikuła, the book is 128pp, cased, (jacket design by Sarah Bennett) and is available to order on our bookstore for £25 (excl. p&p)
Discussions with James Fleming
Filmmaker and book collector, Blazej Mikula has recorded James Fleming discussing the stories that inspired Bond Behind the Iron Curtain.
The film is separated into three clips, starting with the story of the full-page review of the Dr No film that appeared in Izvestiya, the top Russian daily newspaper, in May 1962 and marked the beginning of the communist campaign against Bond.
