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Chekisty : a history of the KGB
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ISBN: 066910258X 9780669102581 Year: 1988 Publisher: Lexington, Mass. Lexington Books

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A study of the KGB by an official of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Spies without Cloaks : The KGB's Successors
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ISBN: 0691025770 0691017182 1282752375 9786612752377 1400821878 1400812380 1400816831 Year: 1997 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was uncloaked. As Amy Knight shows, the KGB was renamed and reorganized several times after it was officially disbanded in December 1991--but it was not reformed. Knight's rich and lively narrative begins with the aborted August 1991 coup, led by KGB hard-liners, and takes us through the summer of 1995, when the Russian parliamentary elections were looming on the horizon. The failed coup attempt was a setback for the KGB because it led to demands from Russian democrats for a complete overhaul of the security services. As a result, the KGB's leaders were fired, its staff reduced, and its functions dispersed among several agencies. Even the elite foreign intelligence service was subjected to budget cuts. But President Yeltsin was reluctant to press on with reforms of the security services, because he needed their support in his struggle against mounting political opposition. Indeed, by the spring of 1995, the security services had regained much of what they had lost in the wake of the August coup. Some observers were even saying that they had acquired more power and influence than the old KGB.This story told by one of the foremost experts on the Soviet/Russian security services and enriched by face-to-face interviews with security professionals in Moscow, is crucial to understanding Russian politics in transition. It will fascinate scholars, policymakers, and general readers interested in the fate of the KGB.

KGB lexicon : the Soviet intelligence officer's handbook
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ISBN: 0714652571 9781136343445 113634344X 9780203045787 0203045785 9780714652573 0714682357 9780714682358 1283969645 9781136343513 9781136343582 1136343512 Year: 2002 Publisher: London ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass,

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In this volume Mitrokhin presents two dictionaries produced by the KGB itself to define their activities in both offensive and defensive intelligence work. The translated documents tell the story of the KGB's methods and targets and should interest the general public as well as the specialist.


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