KGB : the inside story of its foreign operations from Lenin to Gorbachev : Andrew, Christopher M : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-744) and index

A history of Soviet intelligence service and the evolution of the KGB

Tsarist Origins (1565 -- 1917) -- The Cheka, Counterrevolution, and the "Lockhart conspiracy" (1917 -- 21) -- Foreign intelligence and "active measures" in the Dzerzhinsky era (1919 -27) -- Stalin and spy mania (1926 -- 38) -- "Enemies of the people" abroad (1929 -- 40) -- Sigint, agent penetration, and the magnificent five from Cambridge (1930 -- 39) -- The Second World War (1939 -- 41) -- The Great Patriotic War (1941 -- 45) -- The takeover of eastern Europe (1944 -- 48) -- The Cold War: The Stalinist Phase (1945 -- 53) -- The Cold War after Stalin (1953 -- 63) -- The Brezhnev Era: The East, the Third World, and the West (1964 -- 72/73) -- The decline and fall of Detente (1972 -- 84) -- The Gorbachev era 1985