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The Birth of the Soviet Secret Police
Author | : Boris Volodarsky |
Publisher | : Frontline Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2023-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526792265 |
This book is new in every aspect and not only because neither the official history nor an unofficial history of the KGB, and its many predecessors and successors, exists in any language. In this volume, the author deals with the origins of the KGB from the Tsarist Okhrana (the first Russians secret political police) to the OGPU, Joint State Political Directorate, one of the KGB predecessors between 1923 and 1934. Based on documents from the Russian archives, the author clearly demonstrates that the Cheka and GPU/OPGU were initially created to defend the revolution and not for espionage. The Okhrana operated in both the Russian Empire and abroad against the revolutionaries and most of its operations, presented in this book, are little known. The same is the case with regards to the period after the Cheka was established in December 1917 until ten years later when Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and exiled, and Stalin rose to power. For the long period after the Revolution and up to the Second World War (and, indeed, beyond until the death of Stalin) the Chekaâs main weapon was terror to create a general climate of fear in a population. In the book, the work of the Cheka and its successors against the enemies of the revolution is paralleled with British and American operations against the Soviets inside and outside of Russia. For the first time the creation of the Communist International (Comintern) is shown as an alternative Soviet espionage organization for wide-scale foreign propaganda and subversion operations based on the new revelations from the Soviet archives Here, the early Soviet intelligence operations in several countries are presented and analyzed for the first time, as are raids on the Soviet missions abroad. The Bolshevik smuggling of the Russian imperial treasures is shown based on the latest available archival sources with misinterpretations and sometimes false interpretations in existing literature revised. After the Bolshevik revolution, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first chief of SIS, undertook to set up âan entirely new Secret Service organization in Russiaâ. During those first ten years, events would develop as a non-stop struggle between British intelligence, within Russia and abroad, and the Cheka, later GPU/OGPU. Before several show âspy trialsâ in 1927, British intelligence networks successfully operated in Russia later moving to the Baltic capitals, Finland and Sweden while young Soviet intelligence officers moved to London, Paris, Berlin and Constantinople. Many of those operations, from both sides, are presented in the book for the first time in this ground-breaking study of the dark world of the KGB
The Uses of Terror
Author | : Borys Lewytzkyj |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Secret service |
ISBN | : |
The Tsarist Secret Police in Russian Society, 1880-1917
Author | : F. Zuckerman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1996-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230371442 |
This is the first book to portray the history of the Russian secret police - the so-called 'Okhrana' - its personnel, world view and interaction with both government and people during the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II. The secret police harassed, infiltrated and subverted Russian radical and progressive society as it struggled to preserve Tsardom's traditional political culture in the face of Russia's rapid socio-economic transformation - a transformation which the forces of order scarcely understood, yet deeply despised.
Stalin's Secret Police
Author | : Rupert Butler |
Publisher | : Amber Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782743510 |
Illustrated with more than 100 black-and-white photographs and expertly written, Stalin’s Secret Police is a chilling history of the Soviet secret police from 1917 to the fall of Communism.
The Soviet Secret Police
Author | : Simon Wolin |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1974-12-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Revelations from the Russian Archives
Author | : Diane P. Koenker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781780393803 |
Agents of Terror
Author | : Alexander Vatlin |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299310809 |
During Stalin's Great Terror, more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they did not commit. Who carried out these purges, and what motivated them? Alexander Vatlin opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrators using detailed evidence from one Moscow suburb. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"-even when it meant fabricating evidence. Vatlin confronts head-on issues of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.
The Firebird and the Fox
Author | : Jeffrey Brooks |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2019-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108484468 |
A century of Russian artistic genius, including literature, art, music and dance, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it.
Soviet State Security Services 1917–46
Author | : Douglas A. Drabik |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472844084 |
Featuring specially commissioned artwork, this study breaks new ground in covering all the uniformed Soviet security organizations from the Russian Revolution through to World War II. The Bolsheviks' seizure of power in Russia in late 1917 was swiftly followed by the establishment of the Cheka, the secret police of the new Soviet state. The Cheka was central to the Bolsheviks' elimination of political dissent during the Russian Civil War (1917–22). In 1922 the Soviet state-security organs became the GPU and then the OGPU (1923–34) before coalescing into the NKVD. After it played a central role in the Great Terror (1936–38), which saw the widespread repression of many different groups and the imprisonment and execution of prominent figures, the NKVD had its heyday during the Great Patriotic War (1941–45). During the conflict the organization deployed full military divisions, frontier troop units and internal security forces and ran the hated Gulag forced-labor camp system. By 1946, the power of the NKVD was so great that even Stalin saw it as a threat and it was broken up into multiple organizations, notably the MVD and the MGB – the forerunners of the KGB. In this book, the history and organization of these feared organizations are assessed, accompanied by photographs and color artwork depicting their evolving appearance.