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Author Knight, Amy W., 1946-

Title Spies without cloaks : the KGB's successors / Amy Knight
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource ([xiii], 318 pages) : map
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS
Summary This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was uncloaked. As Amy Knight shows, the KGB was renamed and reorganized several times after it was officially disbanded in December 1991--but it was not reformed. Knight's rich and lively narrative begins with the aborted August 1991 coup, led by KGB hard-liners, and takes us through the summer of 1995, when the Russian parliamentary elections were looming on the horizon. The failed coup attempt was a setback
Notes Hardcover published in 1996
Originally published: 1996
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo bezopasnosti.
SUBJECT Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo bezopasnosti fast
Subject Secret service.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Secret service
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92056007
Subject Russia (Federation)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400821877
1400821878