Books by Jonathan Bolton

The Blunt Affair examines a range of literary and filmic texts on the Cambridge spies and related topics - including British intelligence's betrayal of Alan Turing, the Profumo Affair and the Portland spy case - in the context of the culture and politics of the late Cold War. -- .

"Worlds of Dissent" analyzes the myths of Czech resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces these heroic victory narratives with a picture of the struggle against state repression as dissidents themselves understood and lived it. Their diaries, letters, and essays convey the texture of dissent in a closed society.