The Man From Barbarossa and GoldenEye - The influences?

Silhouette Man

Jeremy Black in his great book The Politics of James Bond refers to The Man From Barbarossa's themes turning up in the 1995 film (and Gardner novelisation) GoldenEye. Does anyone here care to comment on these links. I can think of a few - criminals in the post-Cold War world seeking to profit from it, dachas, mentions of the 1991 coup d'etat, General Yevgeny Yuskovich being a forebear of the next 'Iron Man' of Russia - General Ourumov. Anyone else want to contribute on this (perhaps) obscure but very interesting topic?

Sir Miles

You probably really are 'talking' a VERY select few now...alas it has been a number a years since I read the Jeremy Black book you reference, so it's difficult to comment further...sorry...

Silhouette Man

Thanks, anyways. I do aim for the esoteric - I root them out on AJB better than anyone else!

Silhouette Man

I am going to write an article on this novel soon - two in fact, so watch out for my posts on The Bondologist Blog and The Goldeneye Dossier, respectively.