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Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors By Amy Knight
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- “Slight Creasing To Spine and Wear To Edges Of Pages”
- Book Title
- Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors By Amy Knight
- ISBN
- 9780691017181
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Spies Without Cloaks: the Kgb's Successors
- Item Height
- 254 mm
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Width
- 197 mm
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 510 g
- Number of Pages
- 332 Pages
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This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was uncloaked. As Amy Knight shows, the KGB was renamed and reorganized several times after it was officially disbanded in December 1991 - but it was not reformed. Knight's rich and lively narrative begins with the aborted August 1991 coup, led by KGB hard-liners, and takes us through the summer of 1995, when the Russian parliamentary elections were looming on the horizon. The failed coup attempt was a setback for the KGB because it led to demands from Russian democrats for a complete over-haul of the security services. As a result, the KGB's leaders were fired, its staff reduced, and its functions dispersed among several agencies. Even the elite foreign intelligence service was subjected to budget cuts. But President Yeltsin was reluctant to press on with reforms of the security services, because he needed their support in his struggle against mounting political opposition. Indeed, by the spring of 1995, the security services had regained much of what they had lost in the wake of the August coup. Indeed, some observers were even saying that they had acquired more power and influence than the old KGB. This story, told by one of the foremost experts on the Soviet/Russian security services and enriched by face-to-face interviews with security professionals in Moscow, is crucial to understanding Russian politics in transition. It will fascinate scholars, policymakers, and general readers interested in the fate of the KGB.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-13
9780691017181
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96175639
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Spies Without Cloaks: the Kgb's Successors
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
332 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
254 mm
Item Width
197 mm
Item Weight
510 g
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United States
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