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Post-soviet armies newsletter is an electronic newsletter devoted to armed forces and power ministries in post-Soviet countries. The newsletter comprises a database which tends to assemble the maximum of references of works, books and journal articles on post-Soviet militaries and power institutions.
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Soldat, St Petersburg Toy Factory, August 2011 - ESK
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Trinity-St Sergius Monastery - 2009 - Courtesy of Mikhail Maizuls
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Moscow 2007 - Courtesy of Mikhail Maizuls
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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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
