This book is a study of Soviet and Russian intelligence operations against the centers for Soviet studies in North American academia. Special attention is paid to the historical roots of contemporary Russian intelligence operations targeting American-Russian academics and promoting Russian state interests in the ongoing war against Ukraine.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Russian Academic Imperialism in the West and Soviet/Russian Intelligence
Chapter 1: The KGB and Founding of the Soviet Studies Centers in Capitalist America, 1946-1960
Chapter 2: The KGB and International Academic Connections in the USSR Academy of Sciences
Chapter 3: The "KGB People" in International Academic Exchanges
Chapter 4: The KGB Spies, Infiltration into American Society, and KGB "Sleeper Cells/Illegals"
Chapter 5: The KGB, Ukrainian Diaspora in America, and Academic Exchanges
Chapter 6: "Academic Imperialism": Writing Soviet and Post-Soviet History without Ukraine and the Role of the Russian Post-Soviet Immigration to the West
Chapter 7: "The Agents of Influence": Post-Soviet Oligarchs, Russian Intelligence Service and Slavic Studies Centers in the West
Epilogue: KGB Legacy and Failed "Westernization" of Russia
Appendix: List of Interviews
Bibliography
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