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In Stalin's Secret Service: Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect
Rok: 2000
ISBN: 9781929631032
OKCZID: 110126007
Citace (dle ČSN ISO 690):
KRIVICKIJ, Val'ter Germanovič. In Stalin's secret service. 1st ed. New York: Enigma Books, c2000, 306 s. ISBN 1-929631-03-0.
Hodnocení:
4.5 / 5
(6 hlasů)
Anotace
Foreshadowing the Cold War, this memoir of espionage and intrigue cost its author his life at the hands of Stalin's secret police in the heart of Washington DC. To escape the closing trap of the OGPU, the sinister forerunner of the KGB, was an act of absolute desperation. Krivitsky, like Whittaker Chambers, was caught in the labyrinth of the great purges and left a crucially important document. Krivitsky's first-hand account as the top Soviet espionage officer in Western Europe is a fundamental document for the understanding of the international crisis that preceded World War II. It revealed the horrors of Stalin's Great Terror to a disbelieving world as the dictator purged deeper into the ranks of the Soviet hierarchy. Krivitsky's experiences and descriptions of the grim reality of Stalin's methods is a classic of history and espionage. Recent studies, based on previously unavailable documents from the Soviet archives, have unveiled only part of the process that led up to the Terror and the purges. New interpretations have emerged largely confirming what Krivitsky had revealed for the first time in 1939. Krivitsky excelled at foreign military espionage. He had the advantage of knowing Western Europe particularly well and commanded a network of agents in almost every country on the continent. Krivitsky's account of the beginning of Stalin's great purge, which he witnessed from inside the Soviet military's intelligence service, dramatically conveys the immediacy of the terror that was about to engulf millions of unsuspecting Soviet citizens. This is an ominous reminder of the inner workings of ruthless tyranny.