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KGB : the inside story of its foreign operations from Lenin to Gorbachev / Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky.

Title
KGB : the inside story of its foreign operations from Lenin to Gorbachev / Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky.
Author
Andrew, Christopher M.
Publication
New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1990.

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Additional Authors
  • Gordievsky, Oleg
  • Mazal Holocaust Collection TxSaTAM
Description
xvii, 776 p., [24] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
A history of Soviet intelligence service and the evolution of the KGB.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 729-744).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Tsarist Origins (1565 -- 1917) -- The Cheka, Counterrevolution, and the "Lockhart conspiracy" (1917 -- 21) -- Foreign intelligence and "active measures" in the Dzerzhinsky era (1919 -27) -- Stalin and spy mania (1926 -- 38) -- "Enemies of the people" abroad (1929 -- 40) -- Sigint, agent penetration, and the magnificent five from Cambridge (1930 -- 39) -- The Second World War (1939 -- 41) -- The Great Patriotic War (1941 -- 45) -- The takeover of eastern Europe (1944 -- 48) -- The Cold War: The Stalinist Phase (1945 -- 53) -- The Cold War after Stalin (1953 -- 63) -- The Brezhnev Era: The East, the Third World, and the West (1964 -- 72/73) -- The decline and fall of Detente (1972 -- 84) -- The Gorbachev era 1985
ISBN
  • 0060166053 :
  • 0060921099 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^90055525^
OCLC
  • 22579547
  • SCSB-10464438
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library