KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1991

This book provides a unique and rare perspective on the KGB special operations in Soviet Ukraine, focusing on the Cold War period after Stalin's death and the perestroika of the 1980s. It combines counterintelligence documents from the KGB archive in Kyiv with official KGB correspondence and reports to the political leadership of Soviet Ukraine, offering an experimental view of the political and cultural history of relations between Soviet Ukraine and capitalist America. It covers intelligence and counter-intelligence operations, anti-American cultural campaigns, and the role of cultural consumption in this history, making it an invaluable resource for scholars and advanced students of KGB operations, the Cold War, counterintelligence, and political and cultural history.

Format: Hardback
Length: 282 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book provides a unique and rare perspective on the KGB special operations in Soviet Ukraine, focusing on the period of the Cold War after Stalin and combining counterintelligence documents from the KGB archive in Kyiv, Ukraine, with official KGB correspondence and reports to the political leadership of Soviet Ukraine. It offers an experimental view of the political and cultural history of relations between Soviet Ukraine and capitalist America through the prism of KGB operations against the US and Canada. Written from a hidden perspective of KGB operations from 1953 to the end of the 1980s, the book covers intelligence and counter-intelligence operations, active measures of the KGB, and various problems of anti-American cultural campaigns in Soviet Ukraine, sponsored by the KGB, involving cultural consumption, knowledge production, youth culture, and national identity. Using carefully researched archive materials, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and advanced students of KGB operations, the Cold War, counterintelligence, and political and cultural history of the relations between Soviet Ukraine and the United States and Canada, and the role of cultural consumption in this history.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032080123