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| Author | : Ronald Hingley |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2021-05-30 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1000371352 |
This book, first published in 1970, is an important study of Russia’s security services from their earliest years to the mid-twentieth century. Ronald Hingley demonstrates how the secret police acted, both under the Tsars and under Soviet rule, as a key instrument of control exercised over all fields of Russian life by an outstandingly authoritarian state. He analyses the Tsarist Third Section and Okhrana and their role in countering Russian revolutionary groups, and examines the Soviet agencies as they assumed the roles of policeman, judge and executioner. This masterly evaluation of Russian and Soviet secret police makes extensive use of hard-to-find Russian documentary sources, and is the first such research that studies Russian political security (Muscovite, Imperial and Soviet) as a whole.
| Author | : Dr. Vadim Birstein |
| Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2013-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1849546894 |
SMERSH is the award-winning account of the top-secret counterintelligence organisation that dealt with Stalin's enemies from within the shadowy recesses of Soviet government. As James Bond's nemesis in Ian Fleming's novels, SMERSH and its operatives were depicted in exotic duels with 007, rather than fostering the bleak oppression and terror they actually spread in the name of their dictator. Stalin drew a veil of secrecy over SMERSH's operations in 1946, but that did not stop him using it to terrify Red Army dissenters in Leningrad and Moscow, or to abduct and execute suspected spooks - often without cause - across mainland Europe. Formed to mop up Nazi spy rings at the end of the Second World War, SMERSH gained its name from a combination of the Russian words for 'Death to Spies'. Successive Communist governments suppressed traces of Stalin's political hit squad; now Vadim Birstein lays bare the surgical brutality with which it exerted its influence as part of the paranoid regime, both within the Soviet Union and in the wider world. SMERSH was the most mysterious and secret of organisations - this definitive and magisterial history finally reveals truths that lay buried for nearly fifty years.
| Author | : Raymond G Rocca |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2019-03-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0429711565 |
This annotated bibliography is a valuable tool for research and teaching on Soviet intelligence and security services and its role in the country's domestic and international affairs. It categorizes nearly 500 books, articles, and government documents pertaining to Soviet intelligence.
| Author | : Otto Heilbrunn |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2021-01-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000264815 |
This book, first published in 1956, analyses the Red Army’s strategic planning for a war involving nuclear weapons – whereby the front line is thinned out to protect it from nuclear attack and replaced by large-scale offensive operations in NATO’s rear. This new warfare technique had been successfully practised in WWII by Soviet partisan and guerrilla forces, and this book examines these foundations of Soviet secret services doctrine, and the principles by which they would operate.
| Author | : Viktor Suvorov |
| Publisher | : Hamish Hamilton |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Andrei Soldatov |
| Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2010-09-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1586489232 |
In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service. While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse. The security services have played a central -- and often mysterious -- role at key turning points in Russia during these tumultuous years: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan massacre. The security services are not all-powerful; they have made clumsy and sometimes catastrophic blunders. But what is clear is that after the chaotic 1990s, when they were sidelined, they have made a remarkable return to power, abetted by their most famous alumnus, Putin.
| Author | : Molly Pucci |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2020-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0300242573 |
A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differing interpretations of communism and local histories. She also illuminates the difference between veteran agents who fought in foreign wars and younger, more radical agents who combatted "enemies of communism" in the Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe.
| Author | : Jerrold L. Schecter |
| Publisher | : Potomac Books |
| Total Pages | : 664 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Analyzes how government secrets, such as President Truman??'s decision to make a sacred secret of the Venona intercepts, distort politics and our understanding of history
| Author | : Fredric S. Zuckerman |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 1996-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0814796737 |
Karakozov in 1866, Russian political life became trapped within a vicious circle of political reaction, growing disillusionment with the government and intensifying political dissent that increasingly manifested itself in acts of terrorism against Tsarist officials.
| Author | : Robert W. Stephan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
An animated adaptation of the story of the same title by Maurice Sendak in which a small boy makes a visit to the land of the wild things. Tells how he tames the creatures and returns home. For primary grades.
