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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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USSR --- flora --- Adoxaceae --- Bignoniaceae --- Caprifoliaceae --- Globulariaceae --- Lentibulariaceae --- Martyniaceae --- Orobanchaceae --- Pedaliaceae --- Phrymaceae --- Plantaginaceae --- Rubiaceae --- Valerianaceae

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One of the great surprises in modern military history is the collapse of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1991-along with the party-state with which it was inextricably intertwined. In this important book, a distinguished United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military, arguing that it had a far greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West.General William E. Odom asserts that Gorbachev saw that dramatically shrinking the military and the military-industrial sector of the economy was essential for fully implementing perestroika and that his efforts to do this led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Odom enhances his account with interviews with key actors in the Soviet Union before, during, and after the collapse. He describes the condition of the Soviet military during the mid-1980s and explains how it became what it was-its organizational structures, manpower policies, and military-industrial arrangements. He then moves to the dramatic events that led to its destruction, taking us to the most secret circles of Soviet policy making, as well as describing the public debates, factional struggles in the new parliament, and street combat as army units tried to repress the political forces unleashed by glasnost. Odom shows that just as the military was the ultimate source of stability for the multinational Soviet state, the communist ideology justified the military's priority claim on the economy. When Gorbachev tried to shift resources from the military to the civilian sector to overcome economic stagnation, he had to revise the official ideology in order to justify removing the military from its central place. Paralyzed by corruption, mistrust, and public disillusionment, the military was unable and unwilling to intervene against either Gorbachev's perestroika or Yeltsin's dissolution of the Soviet Union.

#SBIB:328H26 --- #SBIB:35H142 --- Instellingen en beleid: USSR (actuele geschiedenis van de USSR: tot 1989) --- Bijzondere korpsen: leger --- Soviet Union --- History, Military. --- Polemology --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- Russia --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Russia & Former Soviet Republics

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Ukraine --- History. --- Histoire --- #SBIB:94H6 --- #SBIB:328H263 --- Geschiedenis van Rusland en de landen van de USSR --- Instellingen en beleid: andere GOS-staten

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Communism --- #SBIB:321H60 --- #SBIB:328H26 --- #SBIB:328H27 --- History --- Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw: socialisme, marxisme, communisme, anarchisme --- Instellingen en beleid: USSR (actuele geschiedenis van de USSR: tot 1989) --- Instellingen en beleid: Midden- en Centraal Europa: algemeen --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- anno 1900-1999