Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF PRINGLE INTELLIGENCE Russia • Military / Security Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterin ...

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Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Series Jon Woronoff, Series Editor 1.British Intelligence, by Ni ...

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Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence Robert W. Pringle Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterin ...

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Contents v Editor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff vii List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ix Chronology xiii Introduction xxiii THE DICTI ...

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Editor’s Foreword vii Nowhere has intelligence and counterintelligence played quite as prominent a role as in tsarist Russia and ...

is particularly revealing, starting in the 16th century and still continuing, albeit more discreetly. Readers who are intrigued ...

Abbreviations and Acronyms ix Abwehr Literally, “Defense.” The German Intelligence Service under the High Command of the Armed F ...

Enormoz Literally, “Enormous.” NKVD code name for the Anglo-American nuclear weapons program FAPSI Ferderalnoe Agentstvo Pravite ...

Instantsiya “The Authorities.” The leadership of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union; the address for important Soviet inte ...

RSDLP (B) Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolshevik) SB Polish Security Service SIS Secret Intelligence Service, British ...

Chronology xiii 1564 Ivan IV (“the Terrible”) creates Oprichninato purge the country of his enemies. Tens of thousands perish in ...

1845 A new Criminal Code is drafted at the order of Nicholas I; dis- sent is narrowly defined. 1848 M. V. Petrashevskiy and his ...

1920 20 December: To pursue enemies abroad, a Foreign Intelligence Section is founded within Cheka. 1921 Vladimir Lenin institut ...

1936–1939 Soviet intelligence services are deeply engaged with Re- publican forces in the Spanish Civil War. NKVD pursues leftis ...

1944 June: Foreign intelligence and strategic deception are major factors in Red Army victory in Operation Bagration. August–Oct ...

1956 February: Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech denouncing Joseph Stalin’s “Cult of Personality ...