The State Within a State: The KGB and its Hold on Russia - Past, Present, and Future

by Yevgenia Albats

Overview

A popular study of the KGB and its post-Soviet incarnation by the courageous and opinionated Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats, who was among the first to report on the organization in the post-Soviet Russian press. Based on extensive personal interviews with current and former agents and on material from the KGB archives, The State Within a State makes a compelling argument that the new incarnation of the KGB has grown not only in size but in influence since the fall of the Soviet Union, making it perhaps the most powerful political force in contemporary Russia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374527389
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	12/01/1999
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.92(d)

Table of Contents

	To the Reader	3
	Introduction	7
1.	A State within a State	21
2.	Victims and Executioners	70
3.	Unnatural Selection	112
4.	Who Was Behind Perestroika?	168
5.	Realities of the Glasnost Era	204
6.	The Coup	268
7.	Lubyanka--Now and Forever	294
	Afterword	361
	Acknowledgments	363
	Notes	367
	Index	391