Комите́т
Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности (info • help);
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti).
KGB
(transliteration
of "КГБ") is the Russian-language abbreviation for State Security Committee,
(Russian:
Комите́т
Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности (info • help);
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti).
From March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991 KGB was the main name for the main Soviet security agency, intelligence agency or spy agency, and the secret police agency. Roughly, the KGB had similar function to those exercised by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the counterintelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Federal Protective Service, and the Secret Service. Its powers were less controlled by law than these American agencies.
The history of Russia would be half complete without the history of the Russian secret police. Without this criminal organization, Russia could not exist - since its foundator, tsar Ivan the Terrible (1530-84), Oprichnina (Oprichniki), later Ochran(k)a, through Soviet Union (GPU, NKVD, KGB etc.) up to Vladimir Putin, the former KGB agent . This traditional force is driven by the nationalism of Great Russians, not by a political motivation, such as the communistic ideology.
KGB, GPU, NKVD, Ochran(k)a, Cheka etc. References
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Author |
Lang. |
Date |
Book Title |
Publisher |
Pages |
ISBN |
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HINGLEY, Ronald |
E |
1970 |
The Russian Secret Police |
Hutchinson |
305 |
978-0091041403 |
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D |
1972 |
Die russische Geheimpolizei |
Hestia Verlag Bayreuth |
400 |
3777000833 |
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BARRON, John |
E |
1983 |
KGB Today. The Hidden Hand |
Reader’s Digest Press, N.Y. |
489 |
0883491648 |
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E |
1974 |
KGB: The secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents |
Reader’s Digest Press, N.Y. |
623 |
978-0553202540 0553202545 |
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E |
1980 |
MIG Pilot. The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko |
Reader’s Digest Press, N.Y.; McGraw-Hill |
224 |
978-0070038509 |
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BLOCH, Sidney + Peter REDDAWAY |
E
|
1977
|
Russia’s Political Hospitals; |
Futura Publications Ltd., London, GB; paper |
510
|
0708814182
|
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E |
1977 |
Psychiatric Terror. How Soviet Psychiatry Is Used To Suppress Dissent. |
Basic Books, N. Y., bond |
510 |
0465064884 |
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Ivan the Terrible (1530-84): |
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561311/ivan_iv_vasilyevich.html |
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Vladimir Putin: |