From Russia with Love

*(SPECIAL NOTE: Capsule version of the review is available here.)* In the last decade of its existence, the Soviet Union was desperately trying to counter overwhelming Western efforts on the propaganda front of the Cold War. That effort, among other things, consisted of a multitude of explicitly anti-Soviet spy and action thrillers like *Red Dawn* or *Rambo 2*, so the Soviets had to produce novels, films and televis…