http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summar/putins_hydra_inside_russias_intelligence_services
M. Galeotti, Putin’s hydra: Inside Russia’s intelligence services, 11 May 2016
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 a multitude of explanations for the causes, goals and consequences of the war. The aim of this conference will be first to sum up, renew and enrich existing research on the Chechen war, by rereading the history of Chechnya since the end of the Soviet period. Its aim will also be to put the phenomena of violence at work in Chechnya in a comparative perspective that takes into account the renewal of contemporary war studies as well as the historiography of 20th century wars. 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 Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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 pioneering study traces the development of professional policing from its pre-revolutionary origins through the late 1930s and early 1940s. 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 driven to embrace the cause of dissents he had under his surveillance.