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The sword and the shield, the Mitrokhin Archive and the secret history of the KGB, Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 571-682) and index

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The sword and the shield

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Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin

the Mitrokhin Archive and the secret history of the KGB

The Mitrokhin archive -- From Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU -- The great illegals -- The magnificent five -- Terror -- War -- The grand alliance -- Victory -- From war to cold war -- The main adversary (part 1; North American illegals in the 1950's) -- The main adversary (part 2; walk-ins and legal residencies in the early cold war) -- The main adversary (part 3; illegals after "Abel") -- The main adversary (part 4; walk-ins and legal residencies in the later cold war) -- Political warfare; active measures and the main adversary -- Progress operations (part 1; crushing the Prague spring) -- PROGRESS operations (part 2; spying on the Soviet bloc)The KGB and western communist parties -- Eurocommunism -- Ideological subversion (part 1; the war against the dissidents) -- Ideological subversion ( Part 2; the victory of the dissidents) -- SIGINT in the cold war -- Special tasks (part 1; from Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev) -- Special tasks (part 2; the Andropov era and beyond) -- Cold War operations against Britain (part 1; after the "Magnificent Five") -- Cold war operations against Britain (part 2; after operations FOOT) -- The Federal Republic of Germany -- France and Italy during the cold war; agent penetration and active measures -- The penetration and persecution of the Soviet churches -- The Polish pope and the rise of solidarity -- The Polish crisis and the crumbling of the Soviet bloc -- Conclusion; from the one-party state to the Yeltsin presidency

Mitrokhin archive and the secret history of the KGB