Record details

• ISBN: 0465003125
• ISBN: 9780465003129
• Physical Description: 736 pages ;23 cm
• Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Perseus Books Group, 2000.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Evolution of the KGB, 1917-1991 xv -- 1 Mitrokhin Archive 1 -- 2 From Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU 23 -- 3 Great Illegals 42 -- 4 Magnificent Five 56 -- 5 Terror 68 -- 6 War 89 -- 7 Grand Alliance 104 -- 8 Victory 122 -- 9 From War to Cold War 137 -- 10 Main Adversary -- Part 1 North American Illegals in the 1950's 162 -- Part 2 Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Early Cold War 176 -- Part 3 Illegals after "Abel" 190 -- Part 4 Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Later Cold War 203 -- 14 Political Warfare: Active Measures and the Main Adversary 224 -- 15 Progress Operations -- Part 1 Crushing the Prague Spring 247 -- 16 Progress Operations -- Part 2 Spying on the Soviet Bloc 262 -- 17 KGB and Western Communist Parties 276 -- 18 Eurocommunism 294 -- 19 Ideological Subversion -- Part 1 War Against the Dissidents 307 -- Part 2 Victory of the Dissidents 322 -- 21 Sigint in the Cold War 337 -- 22 Special Tasks -- Part 1 From Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev 356 -- Part 2 Andropov Era and Beyond 374 -- 24 Cold War Operations Against Britain -- Part 1 After the "Magnificent Five" 397 -- 25 Cold War Operations Against Britain -- Part 2 After Operation FOOT 417 -- 26 Federal Republic of Germany 437 -- 27 France and Italy during the Cold War: Agent Penetration and Active Measures 460 -- 28 Penetration and Persecution of the Soviet Churches 486 -- 29 Polish Pope and the Rise of Solidarity 508 -- 30 Polish Crisis and the Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc 517 -- 31 Conclusion: From the One-Party State to the Yeltsin Presidency 544 -- A KGB Chairmen, 1917-26 566 -- B Heads of Foreign Intelligence, 1920-99 567 -- C Organization of the KGB 568 -- D Organization of the KGB First Chief Directorate 569 -- E Organization of a KGB Residency 570.

Target Audience Note:

1700L Lexile