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Daughters of the KGB : Moscow's secret spies, sleepers and assassins of the Cold War
- Title
- Daughters of the KGB : Moscow's secret spies, sleepers and assassins of the Cold War / Douglas Boyd.
- Author
- Boyd, Douglas, 1938-
- Publication
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2015.
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Details
- Description
- 223 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- Everyone has heard of the KGB, but little has been published about its 'daughter' organisations through which Moscow terrorised the satellite states grabbed by Stalin during and after the Second World War. Staffed by Moscow-trained nationals closely monitored by KGB 'ambassadors', Poland's UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVH, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS and the ultra-Stalinist Stasi of the German Democratic Republic all repressed democratic movements in their respective countries for forty years.
- Subjects
- Europe, Eastern
- Espionage, Soviet
- Intelligence service
- Spies
- Germany (East) > Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
- Espionage, Soviet > Europe, Eastern
- Intelligence service > Soviet Union
- Spies > Soviet Union
- Spies > Europe, Eastern
- Europe, Eastern > History > 1945-1989
- Soviet Union > Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti
- Secret service > Europe, Eastern
- 1945 - 1989
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1: Setting the Scene: 1. Through a Glass Darkly -- 2. Life is a Game of Chess -- pt. 2: The Stasi in German Democratic Republic -- 3. Deutschland Unter Russland -- 4. Creating a New Class of Criminals -- 5. Fear as a Political Tool -- 6. The New Class Enemy -- 7. Lies, Spies and More Spies -- 8. War on the West -- 9. War in the Air -- 10. HVA Versus MI5 -- 11. Death of the Stasi -- pt. 3 State Terror in Central Europe: 12. The Polish UB -- Crushing a Suffering Nation -- 13. Betrayal, Beatings, Elections and Executions -- 14. The Horizontal Spy -- 15. The StB Versus the Czechs and Slovaks -- 16. The ABC of Espionage -- Agents, Blackmail, Codes -- 17. The AVO and Bloodshed in Budapest -- 18. Magyars on Mission Abroad -- pt. 4 State Terror in Eastern Europe: 19. The KDS, Dimitrov's Lethal Homecoming Present to Bulgaria -- 20. A Different Umbrella in Bucharest -- 21. Albania, From Serfdom to the Sigurimi Secret Police.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-2565
- ISBN
- 9780750958509
- 0750958502
- OCLC
- 893896730
- Author
- Boyd, Douglas, 1938- author.
- Title
- Daughters of the KGB : Moscow's secret spies, sleepers and assassins of the Cold War / Douglas Boyd.
- Publisher
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1945 - 1989
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-2565