Description
Book SynopsisOriented for a general reading audience, this book gives a unique and rare perspective on the KGB special operations in Soviet Ukraine, which targeted especially the USA and Canada, using issues related to Soviet Ukrainian identity and cultural diplomacy of Soviet Ukraine after Stalin's death in 1953 until the perestroika of the 1980s.
Concentrating on the period of the Cold War after Stalin and combining the counterintelligence documents from the KGB archive in Kyiv, Ukraine, with the official KGB correspondence and reports to the political leadership of Soviet Ukraine, this book 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, this book covers intelligence and counter-intelligence operations and the active measures of the KGB, but also various pr
Table of Contents
Introduction: Rise and Fall of the KGB in Soviet Ukraine after Stalin; Part I: Creating Models for the Special KGB Operations against the USA and Canada after WWII; Chapter 1: Legacy of the World War II: Ukrainian Nationalists in Diaspora and the Spy Schools in West Germany; Chapter 2: The Legacy of the Early Cold War: Re-Immigrants, the KGB Double Agents and "Zionist Jews"; Chapter 3: Communists and the Political Left in Capitalist America: A Case of Peter Krawchuk and John Kolasky; Chapter 4: Arnold Shlepakov, Ukrainian Diaspora in America, and Academic Exchanges; Part II: The KGB vs. Politicians and Tourists from "Capitalist America"; Chapter 5: "Shpionomania," or the American Spies Hysteria in Soviet Ukraine; Chapter 6: The US Exhibitions and Technological/Industrial Espionage; Chapter 7: "Using the American Officials": From the KGB-CIA Collaboration to the Meddling in the US Politics; Part III: The KGB of Soviet Ukraine in the Cultural Cold War against Capitalist America; Chapter 8: KGB Special Operations, Cultural Consumption and the Youth Culture in Soviet Ukraine; Chapter 9: "American Influences" in Forbidden Literature, Non-Traditional Religions, Music, Video and Sex; Epilogue: "Learning from the Main Adversary" and Returning to the Soviet Anti-American and Anti-Fascist Scenario; Selected Bibliography
