Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 remains one of the most horrifying and hotly debated crimes in American history. Just as perplexing as the assassination is the assassin himself; the 24-year-old Oswald's hazy background and motivations?and his subse…
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A retired KGB official whose career ranged from Stalin's death in 1953 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 provides an insider's view of the KGB's conflict with the United States and reveals details about the agency's secret inner workings. "In his four decades as a KGB off…
A retired KGB official whose career ranged from Stalin's death in 1953 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 provides an insider's view of the KGB's conflict with the United States and reveals details about the agency's secret inner workings.
Everyone has heard of the KGB, but little has been published about is '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'…
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…
SMERSH is the acronym for the Russian words 'death to spies', the name of the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation dedicated to the elimination of anti-communist activity during World War II. A key part of Stalin's terror apparatus, it was responsible for the arrest, torture…
"Why is a book about SMERSH relevant today? As Mr. Birstein takes pains to point out, 'the present Russian government seems intent on whitewashing Stalin's atrocities and the history of the Soviet security services.'"--The Washington Times. SMERSH is primarily known to readers i…
"Autocracy under Siege examines the role of the security service in the titanic struggle between the regime and those dedicated to the defeat of monarchical absolutism. From the first terrorist attempt on the life of a Russian emperor in 1866 through the seismic upheaval of 1905…