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Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence by Robert W. Pringle (Hardcover, 2006)

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At its peak, the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) was the largest secret police and espionage organization in the world. It became so influential in Soviet politics that several of its directors moved on to become premiers of the Soviet Union. In fact, Russian president Vladimir V. Putin is a former head of the KGB. The GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenie) is the principal intelligence unit of the Russian armed forces, having been established in 1920 by Leon Trotsky during the Russian civil war. The GRU was the first subordinate to the KGB, and while the KGB broke up with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the GRU remains intact, cohesive, highly efficient, and with far greater resources than its civilian counterparts. These are just two of the long list of Russian and Soviet intelligence agencies that are covered in the Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence. Through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on organizations like the Oprichnina, Okhrana, GPU, NKVD, KGB, GRU, Smersh, SVR, and FSB, a clear picture of the history of this subject is presented. Entries also cover Soviet and Russian leaders, leading intelligence and security officers, the Lenin and Stalin purges, the Gulag, and noted espionage cases.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Scarecrow Press
ISBN-13
9780810849426
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96216276

Product Key Features

Author
Robert w. Pringle
Publication Name
Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Writing & Reading, Government
Publication Year
2006
Type
Référence
Number of Pages
408 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
225mm
Item Width
147mm
Volume
5
Item Weight
603g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Robert w. Pringle
Series Title
Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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