Spies without Cloaks : : The KGB's Successors / / Amy Knight.
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 officiall...
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Knight, Amy, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Spies without Cloaks : The KGB's Successors / Amy Knight. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1997] ©1996 1 online resource (332 p.) : 3 tables, 1 map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND MAPS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. The KGB and the Myth of the August Coup -- CHAPTER TWO. Building Russia's Security Apparatus -- CHAPTER THREE. Security Services Put to the Test: The Political Crises of 1993 -- CHAPTER FOUR. 1994: An Expanding Role for Domestic Security -- CHAPTER FIVE. Foreign Intelligence: The Empire at Iasenevo -- CHAPTER SIX. Russia's Borders and Beyond -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Security Services and Human Rights -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Guardians of History -- CHAPTER NINE. 1995: The KGB's Domain Revisited -- CHAPTER TEN. Conclusion -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 overhaul 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. 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Secret service. HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691017181 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821877 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400821877 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400821877.jpg |
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