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Author Pringle, Robert W., author.

Title Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence / Robert W. Pringle.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]

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Edition Second edition.
Description 1 online resource (xxv, 421 pages).
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Series Historical dictionaries of intelligence and counterintelligence
Historical dictionaries of intelligence and counterintelligence.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-420).
Contents Entries A-Z -- The evolution of Soviet State Security -- KGB Chairs, 1917-1991 -- Russian foreign intelligence organizations, 1920- -- Chiefs of Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence, 1920- -- Russian Security Services, 1991- -- Heads of Military Intelligence (GRU), 1918- -- Venona code names and encryption -- Loss of life in the Stalin Era -- Agents and programs betrayed by Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Edward Lee Howard -- Maskirovka: deception on nuclear weapons programs -- Bibliography -- About the author.
Summary This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence is the only volume that lays out how Russian and Soviet intelligence works and how its operations have impacted Russian history. It covers Russian intelligence from the imperial period to the present focusing in greatest detail on Cold War espionage cases and the Putin-era intelligence community.
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Subject Intelligence service -- Russia -- Encyclopedias.
Intelligence service.
Russia.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Subject Military intelligence -- Russia -- Encyclopedias.
Military intelligence.
Spies -- Russia -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.
Spies.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Intelligence service -- Soviet Union -- Encyclopedias.
Soviet Union.
Military intelligence -- Soviet Union -- Encyclopedias.
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.
Intelligence service -- Russia (Federation) -- Encyclopedias.
Russia (Federation)
Military intelligence -- Russia (Federation) -- Encyclopedias.
Spies -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Encyclopedias.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] 9781442253179 (DLC) 2015008634
ISBN 9781442253186 ebook
1442253185 ebook
9781442253179 cloth : alkaline paper
1442253177
9781786844026
1786844028