Kgb And Soviet State Security Uniforms
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Author | : László Békési |
Publisher | : Crowood Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
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Covers uniforms, insignia, decorations and other militaria of the Soviet agencies of State Security and Internal Forces. The 300 color photographs are accompanied by highly detailed captions tracing the evolution of official regulations and unofficial practices. They show the uniforms and insignia of the State Security service, the Frontier Guards, Police forces, the Interior Ministry's troops and special forces. A short section, of particular value to collectors and researchers, illustrates the insignia of a number of other uniformed organizations which have often been misidentified as military or security items.
Author | : László Békési |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
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Download KGB & Soviet Security Uniforms & Militaria 1917-1991 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : László Békési |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Secret service |
ISBN | : |
Download KGB & Soviet Security Uniforms & Militaria, 1917-1991 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Douglas A. Drabik |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2022-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472844092 |
Download Soviet State Security Services 1917–46 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Bolsheviks' seizure of power in Russia in late 1917 was swiftly followed by the establishment of the Cheka, the secret police of the new Soviet state. The Cheka was central to the Bolsheviks' elimination of political dissent during the Russian Civil War (1917–22). In 1922 the Soviet state-security organs became the GPU and then the OGPU (1923–34) before coalescing into the NKVD. After it played a central role in the Great Terror (1936–38), which saw the widespread repression of many different groups and the imprisonment and execution of prominent figures, the NKVD had its heyday during the Great Patriotic War (1941–45). During the conflict the organization deployed full military divisions, frontier troop units and internal security forces and ran the hated GULAG forced-labour camp system. By 1946, the power of the NKVD was so great that even Stalin saw it as a threat and it was broken up into multiple organizations, notably the MVD and the MGB – the forerunners of the KGB. In this book, the history and organization of these feared organizations are assessed, accompanied by photographs and colour artwork depicting their evolving appearance.
Author | : Andrei Soldatov |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2010-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1586489232 |
Download The New Nobility Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In The New Nobility, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service. While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse. The security services have played a central -- and often mysterious -- role at key turning points in Russia during these tumultuous years: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan massacre. The security services are not all-powerful; they have made clumsy and sometimes catastrophic blunders. But what is clear is that after the chaotic 1990s, when they were sidelined, they have made a remarkable return to power, abetted by their most famous alumnus, Putin.
Author | : Michael David-Fox |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2023-10-24 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0822990180 |
Download The Secret Police and the Soviet System Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Even more than thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the role of the secret police in shaping culture and society in communist USSR has been difficult to study, and defies our complete understanding. In the last decade, the opening of non-Russian KGB archives, notably in Ukraine after 2015, has allowed scholars to explore state security organizations in ways not previously possible. Moving beyond well-known cases of high-profile espionage and repression, this study is the first to showcase research from a wide range of secret police archives in former Soviet republics and the countries of the former Soviet bloc—some of which are rapidly closing or becoming inaccessible once again. Rather than focusing on Soviet leadership, The Secret Police and the Soviet System integrates the secret police into studies of information, technology, economics, art, and ideology. The result is a state-of-the-art portrait of one of the world’s most notorious institutions, the legacies of which are directly relevant for understanding Vladimir Putin’s Russia today.
Author | : Dennis Desmond |
Publisher | : Schiffer Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780764304620 |
Download Camouflage Uniforms of the Soviet Union and Russia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Camouflage Uniforms of the Soviet Union and Russia is a comprehensive guide to the history, design and use of camouflage field uniforms of the Soviet Union and Russia. This excellent reference contains factual and interesting material covering the earliest days of uniform development to the most recent issues of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, former KGB and Spetsnaz forces. Packed with detailed color photographs, this book fills an important void in the collector reference library that has been vacant far too long. Designed with both the militaria collector and Russophile in mind, this book is an easy to use picture guide to the most sought after collectible in the Soviet and Russian militaria field, and is a must for any serious collector or intelligence analyst interested in the former Soviet Union or Russia.
Author | : Amy W. Knight |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000263002 |
Download The KGB Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book, first published in 1990, examines the origins and evolution of the security police, considering the continuities as well as changes in its function as guardian of the regime’s security. It analyses the KGB’s involvement in Kremlin politics, the structure and organisation of the KGB, its formal tasks and legal prerogatives as set forth by the Party leadership, and the actual functions it performs on behalf of the Soviet regime. Underlying this analysis is an attempt to assess the power and authority of the KGB relative to other political institutions and to explain the crucial dynamics of the Party- KGB relationship.
Author | : Aleksei Myagkhov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780345325792 |
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Author | : Laszlo Bekesi |
Publisher | : Crowood Press UK |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781861268228 |
Download Stalin's War Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is the third volume by the acclaimed Hungarian collector-and-photographer team, identifying and explaining historic Soviet militaria from private collections. A wide range of uniforms, insignia awards, weapons, equipment, documents and ephemera from the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War are illustrated, in more than 230 close-up color studies, supported by more than 60 fascinating monochrome photographs that have survived, unpublished, in private hands. This volume includes explanations of Soviet military symbolism from the early days of the Communist state, but concentrates on the period of key interest between 1943 and 1945, when Stalin consciously revived many of the visual traditions of the Tsarist years in order to harness Russian patriotism against the Nazi invaders.