Daughters of the KGB: Moscow's secret spies, sleepers and assassins of the Cold War 9780750963541, 9780750958509, 0750958502

pt. 1: Setting the Scene: 1. Through a Glass Darkly -- 2. Life is a Game of Chess -- pt. 2: The Stasi in German Democrat

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English Pages 223 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Year 2015

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Daughters of the KGB: Moscow's secret spies, sleepers and assassins of the Cold War
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Table of contents :
pt. 1: Setting the Scene: 1. Through a Glass Darkly --
2. Life is a Game of Chess --
pt. 2: The Stasi in German Democratic Republic --
3. Deutschland Unter Russland --
4. Creating a New Class of Criminals --
5. Fear as a Political Tool --
6. The New Class Enemy --
7. Lies, Spies and More Spies --
8. War on the West --
9. War in the Air --
10. HVA Versus MI5 --
11. Death of the Stasi --
pt. 3 State Terror in Central Europe: 12. The Polish UB --
Crushing a Suffering Nation --
13. Betrayal, Beatings, Elections and Executions --
14. The Horizontal Spy --
15. The StB Versus the Czechs and Slovaks --
16. The ABC of Espionage --
Agents, Blackmail, Codes --
17. The AVO and Bloodshed in Budapest --
18. Magyars on Mission Abroad --
pt. 4 State Terror in Eastern Europe: 19. The KDS, Dimitrov's Lethal Homecoming Present to Bulgaria --
20. A Different Umbrella in Bucharest --
21. Albania, From Serfdom to the Sigurimi Secret Police.

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