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Book Nights are Longest There  Smersh from the Inside

Download or read book Nights are Longest There Smersh from the Inside written by A. I. Romanov and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nights are the Longest There

Download or read book Nights are the Longest There written by A. I. Romanov and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Smersh

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  • Author : Dr. Vadim Birstein
  • Publisher : Biteback Publishing
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1849546894
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Smersh written by Dr. Vadim Birstein and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SMERSH is the award-winning account of the top-secret counterintelligence organisation that dealt with Stalin's enemies from within the shadowy recesses of Soviet government. As James Bond's nemesis in Ian Fleming's novels, SMERSH and its operatives were depicted in exotic duels with 007, rather than fostering the bleak oppression and terror they actually spread in the name of their dictator. Stalin drew a veil of secrecy over SMERSH's operations in 1946, but that did not stop him using it to terrify Red Army dissenters in Leningrad and Moscow, or to abduct and execute suspected spooks - often without cause - across mainland Europe. Formed to mop up Nazi spy rings at the end of the Second World War, SMERSH gained its name from a combination of the Russian words for 'Death to Spies'. Successive Communist governments suppressed traces of Stalin's political hit squad; now Vadim Birstein lays bare the surgical brutality with which it exerted its influence as part of the paranoid regime, both within the Soviet Union and in the wider world. SMERSH was the most mysterious and secret of organisations - this definitive and magisterial history finally reveals truths that lay buried for nearly fifty years.

Book The Dark Chronicles

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  • Author : Jeremy Duns
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-05-29
  • ISBN : 1101589442
  • Pages : 801 pages

Download or read book The Dark Chronicles written by Jeremy Duns and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1969, and MI6 agent Paul Dark has spent the last twenty-five years betraying his country. When a would-be Russian defector turns up with information about a high-level British double agent, Dark goes on the run—only to discover that everything he believes is a lie. Bringing together three novels featuring double agent Paul Dark, The Dark Chronicles journeys from London to Nigeria and from Rome to Moscow in a heart-pounding saga of dubious loyalties, deadly conspiracies, and ruthless acts of revenge at the height of the Cold War.

Book Soviet Defectors

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  • Author : Riehle Kevin Riehle
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-31
  • ISBN : 1474467261
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Soviet Defectors written by Riehle Kevin Riehle and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the insider information and insights that over eighty Soviet intelligence officer defectors revealed during the first half of the Soviet periodIdentifies 88 Soviet intelligence officer defectors for the period 1917 to 1954, representing a variety of specializations; the most comprehensive list of Soviet intelligence officer defectors compiled to date. Shows the evolution of Soviet threat perceptions and the development of the "e;main enemy"e; concept in the Soviet national security system. Shows fluctuations in the Soviet recruitment and vetting of personnel for sensitive national security positions, corresponding with fluctuations in the stability of the Soviet government. Compiles for the first time corroborative primary sources in English, Russian, French, German, Finnish, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.When intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state. This book identifies a group of those defectors from the Soviet elite - intelligence officers - and provides an aggregate analysis of their information to uncover Stalin's strategic priorities and concerns, thus to open a window into Stalin's impenetrable national security decision making. This book uses their information to define Soviet threat perceptions and national security anxieties during Stalin's time as Soviet leader.

Book The Red Army in Austria

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  • Author : Stefan Karner
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2020-09-02
  • ISBN : 1793626596
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book The Red Army in Austria written by Stefan Karner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the Soviet Secret Services, the military kommandaturas, Soviet occupation policies, the withdrawal of troops in 1955, everyday life, the image of “the Russians,” violence against women, arrests, deportations, Soviet aid provisions, as well as children of occupation.

Book Victims of Yalta

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  • Author : Nikolai Tolstoy
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-08-06
  • ISBN : 1453249362
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Victims of Yalta written by Nikolai Tolstoy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “harrowing” true story of World War II—the forced repatriation of two million Russian POWs to certain doom (The Times, London). At the end of the Second World War, a secret Moscow agreement that was confirmed at the 1945 Yalta Conference ordered the forcible repatriation of millions of Soviet citizens that had fallen into German hands, including prisoners of war, refugees, and forced laborers. For many, the order was a death sentence, as citizens returned to find themselves executed or placed back in forced-labor camps. Tolstoy condemns the complicity of the British, who “ardently followed” the repatriation orders.

Book Beria

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  • Author : Amy Knight
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-06-16
  • ISBN : 0691214247
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Beria written by Amy Knight and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Yet because his political opponents expunged his name from public memory after his dramatic arrest and execution in 1953, little has been previously published about his long and tumultuous career.

Book The KGB

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  • Author : Amy W. Knight
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-01-26
  • ISBN : 1000263002
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book The KGB written by Amy W. Knight and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1990, examines the origins and evolution of the security police, considering the continuities as well as changes in its function as guardian of the regime’s security. It analyses the KGB’s involvement in Kremlin politics, the structure and organisation of the KGB, its formal tasks and legal prerogatives as set forth by the Party leadership, and the actual functions it performs on behalf of the Soviet regime. Underlying this analysis is an attempt to assess the power and authority of the KGB relative to other political institutions and to explain the crucial dynamics of the Party- KGB relationship.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stalin s Agent

Download or read book Stalin s Agent written by Boris Volodarsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story behind General Alexander Orlov, the man who never was, now revealed in full for the first time: Stalinist henchman, Soviet spy, celebrated defector to the West, and central character in the greatest KGB deception ever.

Book Free Agent

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  • Author : Jeremy Duns
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-04-30
  • ISBN : 1849830886
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Free Agent written by Jeremy Duns and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1945: MI6 agent Paul Dark takes part in a top-secret mission to hunt down and execute Nazi war criminals. He will discover that everything he understood about that mission, about its consequences, and about the woman he once loved, has been built on false foundations. 1969: a KGB colonel called Slavin walks into the High Commission in Lagos, Nigeria, and announces that he wants to defect. He has information which indicates that there is yet another double agent within the Service -- a devastating blow to an M16 still coming to terms with its betrayal by Kim Philby and the rest of the Cambridge Five. Dark has been largely above suspicion during those years of self-recrimination. But now he can see his number coming up. For some it would be fight or flight time. But when you discover that everything you've taken for granted and trusted for twenty-four years is untrue, and when your arrest may only be moments away, then flight and fight may be your only option. Free Agent is a twisting, intense thriller set between London and Nigeria during the height of the Cold War. It's a novel of innumerable cliffhangers within a constantly evolving moral universe, and it keeps the surprises coming until the very last page.

Book Free Agent  Paul Dark 1

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  • Author : Jeremy Duns
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2009-05-05
  • ISBN : 184737736X
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Free Agent Paul Dark 1 written by Jeremy Duns and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1945 MI6 agent Paul Dark took part in a top secret mission to hunt down and execute Nazi war criminals. He will discover that everything he understood about that mission, about its consequences, and about the woman he once loved, has been built on false foundations. Now it's 1969 and a KGB colonel called Slavin has walked into the High Commission inLagos, Nigeria,and announced that he wants to defect. His credentials as a defector are good - he has highly suggestive information which indicates that there is yet another double agent within MI6, which would be a devastating blow for a Service still coming to terms with its betrayal by Kim Philby and the rest of the Cambridge Five. Paul Dark has been largely above suspicion during MI6's years of self-recrimination. But this time he can see his number coming up. For some it would be fight or flight time. But when you discover that everything you've taken for granted and trusted for twenty four years turns out to be untrue, and when your arrest may only be moments away, then perhaps the only option is both fight and flight. Free Agent is a twisting, intense thriller set between London and Nigeria during the height of the Cold War. It's a novel of innumerable cliffhangers, all set within a constantly evolving moral universe, and the surprises keep coming until the very last page. Jeremy Duns is also the author of the acclaimed Spy Out the Land, Song of Treason and The Moscow Option.

Book Encounter

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  • Author : Stephen Spender
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 618 pages

Download or read book Encounter written by Stephen Spender and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encounter

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 618 pages

Download or read book Encounter written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography On Soviet Intelligence And Security Services

Download or read book Bibliography On Soviet Intelligence And Security Services written by Raymond G Rocca and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography is a valuable tool for research and teaching on Soviet intelligence and security services and its role in the country's domestic and international affairs. It categorizes nearly 500 books, articles, and government documents pertaining to Soviet intelligence.

Book Ukraine During World War II

Download or read book Ukraine During World War II written by Roman Waschuk and published by CIUS Press. This book was released on 1986-06-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Ukraine during World War II.