Knight Spies without Cloaks

The KGB's Successors
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2187-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 332 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Knight, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Maps

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction 3

Ch. 1 The KGB and the Myth of the August Coup 12

Ch. 2 Building Russia's Security Apparatus 38

Ch. 3 Security Services Put to the Test: The Political Crises of 1993 62

Ch. 4 1994: An Expanding Role for Domestic Security 86

Ch. 5 Foreign Intelligence: The Empire at Iasenevo 111

Ch. 6 Russia's Borders and Beyond 138

Ch. 7 The Security Services and Human Rights 164

Ch. 8 Guardians of History 191

Ch. 9 1995: The KGB's Domain Revisited 218

Ch. 10 Conclusion 244

Notes 255

Index 301

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Knight is Senior Research Analyst at the Library of Congress and Professorial Lecturer in Russian History and Politics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C. She is the author of The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union and Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant (Princeton).