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INTELLIGENCE SERVICE--USSR --- USSR. KGB

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For years KGB worker Vasili Mitrokhin had risked his life smuggling material from the Russian secret service archives and hiding it beneath his family dacha. When he defeated to the West he took with him what the FBI would call 'the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source'. This book is the result. It reveals the details of, among others, the top British female undercover agent Melita Norwood and the corrupt Scotland Yard officer who became a 'Romeo spy', and is one of the most extraordinary secret histories of our time.

Polemology --- USSR. KGB --- INTELLIGENCE SERVICE--USSR--HISTORY --- SECRET SERVICE--USSR--HISTORY --- MITROKHIN, VASILI, 1922-2004

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ESPIONAGE, RUSSIAN --- SPIES--USSR--BIOGRAPHY --- DEFECTORS--USSR--BIOGRAPHY --- LEVCHENKO, STAN --- USSR. KGB

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Based on an unprecedented, top-secret archive described by the FBI as 'the most complete and extensive intelligence ever achieved from any source', this book gives us by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe.

USSR. KGB --- INTELLIGENCE SERVICE--USSR--HISTORY --- SECRET SERVICE--USSR--HISTORY --- MITROKHIN, VASILI, 1922-2004

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This original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people, most of them ordinary citizens? Why did repression come in waves or cycles? Why were economic and petty crimes regarded as political crimes? What was the reason for relying on extra-judicial tribunals? And what motivated the extreme harshness of punishments, including the widespread use of the death penalty? Through an approach that synthesizes history and economics, Paul Gregory develops systematic explanations for the way terror was applied, how terror agents were recruited, how they carried out their jobs, and how they were motivated. The book draws on extensive, recently opened archives of the Gulag administration, the Politburo, and state security agencies themselves to illuminate in new ways terror and repression in the Soviet Union as well as dictatorships in other times and places.

Internal security --- Political persecution --- History. --- Soviet Union. --- KGB --- USSR KGB --- K.G.B. --- Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.). --- KA-GKE-BE --- KGB SSSR --- ק.ג.ב --- Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet RSFSR po obshchestvennoĭ bezopasnosti i vzaimodeĭstvii︠u︡ s Ministerstvom oborony SSSR i KGB SSSR --- Russia (Federation). --- T︠S︡entralʹnai︠a︡ sluzhba razvedki SSSR --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- History