This is a text concerning the role of the KGB in Soviet politics in the period from 1917 through to 1989. The author draws on published materials from Russian and Western sources, and combines historical and political analyses to examine the origins, present structure, organization, functioning, and role of the KGB in enforcing security and policy. For this edition an epilogue covering 1987-1989 has been added.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-04-445718-3 (9780044457183)
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Part 1 Origins and evolution: the origins of the KGB; the KGB - reform and rehabilitation 1954-1967; the KGB and party politics 1967-1987. Part 2 The structure of the KGB: the KGB - functions, organization and party control; CPSU cadres policy and career patterns in the KGB. Part 3 The functions of the KGB: the KGB and internal security; KGB security and border troops; the KGB's special departments in the Soviet Armed Forces; the KGB and Soviet foreign policy. Appendices: The Soviet security policy 1917-1987; crimes under the investigative purview of the KGB; KGB central apparatus 1954-1987; leading KGB cadres - 1958-1962, 1980-1984; key KGB posts in non-Russian republics, Moscow and Lenningrad - 1954-1987.