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INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

Internal Security
PREDECESSORS OF THE KGB AND MVD
The Tsarist Period
Soviet Predecessor Organizations, 1917-54
THE SECURITY APPARATUS AND KREMLIN POLITICS
Khrushchev Period
After Khrushchev
Gorbachev Era
THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD
KGB
MVD

Sources and Resources

• THE PURGES & THE STALINIST SYTEM 1930s-1953
• New Evidence on Beria's Downfall Rachel A. Connell Cold War History Project Bulletin #1 (Spring 1992)
• Spy vs. Spy: The KGB vs. the CIA Vladislav M. Zubok Cold War History Project Bulletin #4 (Fall 1994)
• Atomic Espionage and Its Soviet “Witnesses” Vladislav M. Zubok Cold War History Project Bulletin #4 (Fall 1994)
• The KGB Mission to Niels Bohr: Its Real “Success” Yuri N. Smirnov Cold War History Project Bulletin #4 (Fall 1994)
• Documents: Niels Bohr Cold War History Project Bulletin #4 (Fall 1994)
• The Eremin Letter Was Stalin an Agent of the Tsarist Okhrana? by Eric Lee 1996

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