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KGB operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1991 / Sergei I. Zhuk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhuk, S. I. (Sergeĭ Ivanovich), author.
- Series:
- Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.
- Soviet Union.
- Espionage, Soviet--Ukraine.
- Espionage, Soviet.
- Espionage, Soviet--United States.
- United States.
- Espionage, Soviet--Canada.
- Canada.
- Ukraine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 260 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Sergei I. Zhuk is Professor of History at Ball State University, USA. Since 1997 he has taught American colonial history andRussian/Soviet and Ukrainian history at Ball State University, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. His research interests are international relations, knowledge production, cultural consumption, religion, popular culture and identity inthe history of imperial Russia, Ukraine and the Soviet Union.
- 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
- Legacy of the World War II : Ukrainian nationalists in diaspora and the spy schools in West Germany
- The legacy of the early Cold War : re-Immigrants, the KGB double agents and "Zionist Jews"
- Communists and the political left in capitalist America : a case of Peter Krawchuk and John Kolasky
- Arnold Shlepakov, Ukrainian diaspora in America, and academic exchanges
- Part II: The KGB vs. politicians and tourists from "capitalist America"
- "Shpionomania," or the American spies hysteria in Soviet Ukraine
- The US exhibitions and technological/industrial espionage
- "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
- KGB special operations, cultural consumption and the youth culture in Soviet Ukraine
- "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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Zhuk, S. I. KGB operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953-1991
- ISBN:
- 9781003212522
- 1003212522
- 9781000580600
- 1000580601
- 9781000580662
- 1000580660
- Publisher Number:
- 99990685214
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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