Category Archives: Intelligence / Secret Services

Call for Papers – Chechnya: Rationales of Violence and War Experiences – Paris, 22-23 October 2012


    CONFERENCE – CALL FOR PAPER – Chechnya: rationales of violence and war experiences Paris, 22-23 October 2012  Since 1994, the Chechen war has been qualified in diverse ways by actors and observers, and this profusion of qualifiers reveals … Continue reading

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Book – A. Marshall, The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1860-1917, 2011


Alex Marshall, The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1860-1917, Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, 2011

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Book – Julie Fedor, Russia and the Cult of State Security. The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin, June 2011


Julie Fedor, Russia and the Cult of State Security. The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin, Routledge, “Studies in Intelligence”, June 2011, 292 pages

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Book – Gary K. Busch, “FREE-FOR-ALL: The Post-Soviet Transition Of Russia”


Gary K. Busch, “FREE-FOR-ALL: The Post-Soviet Transition Of Russia”, VBW Publishing, 2011, http://www.virtualbookworm.com/publishing.html.

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Book – Paul Hagenloh, “Stalin’s Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926-1941″


Paul Hagenloh, Stalin’s Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926-1941 ,Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010. Publisher’s comments: Stalin’s Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This … Continue reading

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Documentary Film – “The KGB Dissent” by Nicolas Jallot (in French)


Nicolas Jallot’s documentary film was shown on the French channel Arte  on November 18, 2010. The documentary film titled « Le dissident du KGB » [The KGB Dissent] is an inquiry into Viktor Orekhov’s life, – an officer of the Soviet political police who was progressively … Continue reading

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Book & Lecture – Soldatov & Borogan, The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB


Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan,  The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB, The Perseus Books Group, 2010. Publisher’s note: The Soviet KGB, the notorious secret police, was all-powerful, but fully under … Continue reading

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