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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1990.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 776 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0060166053 :
  • 9780060166052
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JN6529.I6 A53 1990
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
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks JN6529.I6A53 1990 1 Available 33710001256325

Includes bibliographical references (p. 729-744) and index.

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