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On Sunday afternoon, August 18, 1991, President Mikhail Gorbachev was sitting, informally dressed, in a study at "Zarya," his summer home on the Black Sea shore, near the Crimean town of Foros.
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It was official. In 1991, two months after an abortive coup in August, the KGB was pronounced dead. But was it really? In KGB: Death and Rebirth, Martin Ebon, a writer long engaged in the study of foreign affairs, maintains that the notorious secret police/espionage organization is alive and well. He takes a penetrating look at KGB predecessors, the KGB at the time of its supposed demise, and the subsequent use of segmented intelligence forces such as border patrols and communications and espionage agencies. Ebon points out that after the Ministry of Security resurrected these domestic KGB activities, Yevgeny Primakov's Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) assumed foreign policy positions not unlike its predecessor's. Even more important, Ebon argues, spin-off secret police organizations - some still bearing the KGB name - have surfaced, wielding significant power in former Soviet republics, from the Ukraine to Kazakhstan, from Latvia to Georgia. How did the new KGB evolve? Who were the individuals responsible for recreating the KGB in its new image? What was the KGB's relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev during his regime? Did Boris Yeltsin plan a Russian KGB, even before the August coup? What has been the role of KGB successor agencies within the independence movements in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia? How has Yevgeny Primakov influenced foreign intelligence activity? What is the role of the FIS in Iran? What does the future hold? Martin Ebon meets these provocative questions head-on, offering candid, often surprising answers and new information for the curious - or concerned - reader. While the Cold War is over, Ebon cautions, the KGB has retained its basic structure and goalsunder a new name, and it would be naive to believe otherwise.
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- Title KGB: Death and Rebirth
- Author Martin Ebon
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.
- Date 1994-02-23
- ISBN 9780275946333 / 0275946339
- Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.56 x 6.42 x 1.17 in (24.28 x 16.31 x 2.97 cm)
- Reading level 1390
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Soviet Union - History, Intelligence service - Soviet Union - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93005398
- Dewey Decimal Code 327.124
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/01/1994, Page 1410
- Library Journal, 01/01/1994, Page 140
- Publishers Weekly, 03/21/1994, Page 64
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