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The sword and the shield : the Mitrokhin archive and the secret history of the KGB Cover Image Book

The sword and the shield : the Mitrokhin archive and the secret history of the KGB / Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin.

Andrew, Christopher M. (Author). Mitrokhin, Vasili, 1922-2004 (Added Author).

Summary:

Describes a treasure trove of secret documents found by the FBI, and offers facts about every country in the world, as well as information that contributes to the history of the last century

Record details

  • ISBN: 0465003109
  • ISBN: 9780465003105
  • Physical Description: 700 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [1999]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. The Mitrokhin archive -- 2. From Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU -- 3. The great illegals -- 4. The magnificent five -- 5. Terror -- 6. War -- 7. The grand alliance -- 8. Victory -- 9. From war to Cold War -- 10. The main adversary : part 1. North American illegals in the 1950's -- 11. The main adversary : part 2. Walk-ins and legal residencies in the early Cold War -- 12. The main adversary : part 3. Illegals after "Abel" -- 13. The main adversary : part 4. Walk-ins and legal residencies in the later Cold War --14. Political warfare : active measures and the main adversary -- 15. PROGRESS operations : part 1. crushing the Prague Spring -- 16. PROGRESS operations : part 2 : spying on the Soviet Bloc -- 17. The KGB and Western Communist parties -- 18. Eurocommunism -- 19. Ideological subversion : part 1 : the war against the dissidents -- 20. Ideological subversion : part 2 : the victory of the dissidents -- 21. SIGINT in the Cold War -- 22. Special tasks : part 1 : from Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev -- 23. Special tasks : part 2 : the Andropov era and beyond -- 24. Cold War operations against Britain : part 1 : after the "Magnificent five" -- 25. Cold War operations against Britain : part 2 : after Operation FOOT -- 26. The Federal Republic of Germany -- 27. France and Italy during the Cold War : agent penetration and active measures -- 28. The penetration and persecution of the Soviet churches -- 29. The Polish Pope and the rise of solidarity -- 30. The Polish crisis and the crumbling of the Soviet Bloc -- 31. Conclusion : from the one-party state to the Yeltsin presidency.
Target Audience Note:
1700L Lexile

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Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti > History.
Intelligence service > Soviet Union > History.
Secret service > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations.

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