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By Robert W. Pringle

ISBN-10: 0810849429

ISBN-13: 9780810849426

At its top, the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) used to be the most important mystery police and espionage association on this planet. It turned so influential in Soviet politics that a number of of its administrators moved directly to turn into premiers of the Soviet Union. actually, Russian president Vladimir V. Putin is a former head of the KGB. The GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenie) is the vital intelligence unit of the Russian militia, having been tested in 1920 by way of Leon Trotsky in the course of the Russian civil conflict. The GRU was once the 1st subordinate to the KGB, and whereas the KGB broke up with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the GRU is still intact, cohesive, hugely effective, and with some distance larger assets than its civilian opposite numbers. those are only of the lengthy checklist of Russian and Soviet intelligence organizations which are coated within the historic Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence. via a listing of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of thousands of cross-referenced dictionary entries on companies just like the Oprichnina, Okhrana, GPU, NKVD, KGB, GRU, Smersh, SVR, and FSB, a transparent photo of the background of this topic is gifted. Entries additionally conceal Soviet and Russian leaders, prime intelligence and safeguard officials, the Lenin and Stalin purges, the Gulag, and famous espionage cases.

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