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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.

Table of Contents:
Editor's Foreword List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Appendixes  A. The Evolution of Soviet State Security, 1917-1991  B. KGB Chairs, 1917-1991  C. Russian Foreign Intelligence Organizations, 1920-  D. Chiefs of Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence, 1920-  E. Russian Security Services, 1991-  F. Heads of Military Intelligence (GRU), 1918-  G. Venona Code Names and Encryption  H. Loss of Life in the Stalin Era  I. Agents and Programs Betrayed by Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Edward Lee Howard  J. Maskirovka: Deception on Nuclear Weapons Programs Bibliography About the Author

About the Author :
Robert W. Pringle is a veteran of 25 years service with the Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency. From 1998 to 2004 Pringle taught history and political science courses at the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce.

Review :
It is a useful reference volume. This is a must.... From Viktor Abakumov, the World War II-era head of the Soviet Ministry of State Security, to Nikolai Zubatov, a pre-revolutionary police agent, this historical dictionary by Pringle (a former US foreign service officer and intelligence analyst) covers important individuals, organizations, events, and issues of Russian and Soviet intelligence activities from the time of Ivan the Terrible to the present day in cross-referenced alphabetical entries. Also included in the dictionary are an introductory historical essay, a chronology, and a bibliography, as well as appendixes on the evolution of Soviet state security, KGB chairs, Chiefs of foreign intelligence, heads of military intelligence, and other information.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780810864825
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
  • ISBN-10: 0810864827
  • Publisher Date: 05 Sep 2006
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 408


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