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Stalin S Defectors
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Author : Mark Edele
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Stalin S Defectors written by Mark Edele and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
The first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945, showing that while people were disgruntled with Stalin's rule, most attempts to cross the frontline stemmed from a wish to survive this war, rather than a desire to support Hitler's regime.
Stalin S Defectors
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Author : Mark Edele
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-23
Stalin S Defectors written by Mark Edele and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-23 with History categories.
Stalin's Defectors is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945. No other Allied army in the Second World War had such a large share of defectors among its prisoners of war. Based on a broad range of sources, this volume investigates the extent, the context, the scenarios, the reasons, the aftermath, and the historiography of frontline defection. It shows that the most widespread sentiments animating attempts to cross the frontline was a wish to survive this war. Disgruntlement with Stalin's 'socialism' was also prevalent among those who chose to give up and hand themselves over to the enemy. While politics thus played a prominent role in pushing people to commit treason, few desired to fight on the side of the enemy. Hence, while the phenomenon of frontline defection tells us much about the lack of popularity of Stalin's regime, it does not prove that the majority of the population was ready for resistance, let alone collaboration. Both sides of a long-standing debate between those who equate all Soviet captives with defectors, and those who attempt to downplay the phenomenon, then, over-stress their argument. Instead, more recent research on the moods of both the occupied and the unoccupied Soviet population shows that the majority understood its own interest in opposition to both Hitler's and Stalin's regime. The findings of Mark Edele in this study support such an interpretation.
Soviet Defectors
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Author : Kevin Riehle
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-31
Soviet Defectors written by Kevin Riehle and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-31 with History categories.
When intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state.
Soviet Defectors
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Author : Vladislav Krasnov
language : en
Publisher: Hoover Press
Release Date : 2018-04-01
Soviet Defectors written by Vladislav Krasnov and has been published by Hoover Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-01 with History categories.
The topic of defection is taboo in the USSR, and the Soviets, are anxious to silence, downplay, or distort every case of defection. Surprisingly, Vladislav Krasnov reports, the free world has often played along with these Soviet efforts by treating defection primarily as a secretive matter best left to bureaucrats. As a result, defectors' human rights have sometimes been violated, and U.S. national security interests have been poorly served.
Soviet And Nazi Defectors
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Author : Nigel West
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2024-12-30
Soviet And Nazi Defectors written by Nigel West and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-30 with History categories.
Analyzes nine wartime and postwar defections, highlighting motivations, risks, and counter-intelligence significance. A well-informed defector is the most dangerous counter-intelligence commodity because it takes a spy to catch a spy. Very occasionally, an agent, especially a mole or an intelligence professional, will make a mistake and incriminate themselves, but usually it is a denunciation, a tip, or a vague clue from a defector that will provide the vital information required to expose the source of a leak. Relying on recently-declassified intelligence files and interviews with defectors, their handlers, their families, and their victims, Nigel West has analyzed nine examples of wartime and postwar defections to shed new light on the phenomenon. Defectors are notoriously difficult to handle, and resettle, because of the range of genuine or invented motives that led them to take such drastic action. Some will provide a noble political motive, seeking to impress their host, while others may be driven by less worthy compulsions – perhaps greed, revenge, career disappointment, envy, anger, or nothing more complicated that a desire to start a life afresh with a different partner. Defectors are the stock-in-trade for all counter-intelligence specialists who seek the background and context of corridor gossip and water-cooler chat cannot be substituted by any amount of technical surveillance, overhead reconnaissance or hard to-interpret intercepted communications. This is the essence of Human Intelligence, and goes to the heart of loyalty, trust, betrayal and deception – the very DNA of espionage. These nine examples of switching sides all involve intelligence professionals who followed the example of Erich Vermehren. Because of his religious convictions, Vermehren felt compelled to desert the Abwehr in January 1944, even though this meant the arrest of his parents and siblings who were consigned to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. West traced Vermehren, then living under an alias in Switzerland, to hear his story first-hand. He then interviewed the British MI6 officer who had engineered the covert exfiltration from Istanbul of both the German and his wife. Sometimes a defection may be the result of a period of cultivation, as happened with Vladimir Petrov, who was gently persuaded over many months by his Polish dentist to abandon his clandestine role as rezident in Canberra for a chicken farm. The intermediary, Dr Michael Bialoguski, admitted to the author that right up to the moment of his defection, he and his Australian Security Intelligence organization colleagues were not entirely sure of Petrov’s true status. Once resettled, a defector’s life has daily challenges, as was explained by Yuri Rastvorov’s widow, herself a CIA counter-intelligence officer, who recalled the day she had to tell their two daughters that their father was not a Czech tennis coach, but an NKVD defector who had been based in Tokyo.
Stalin S Man In Canada
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Author : David Levy
language : en
Publisher: Enigma Books
Release Date : 2011-12-13
Stalin S Man In Canada written by David Levy and has been published by Enigma Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-13 with History categories.
First book about key Soviet spy and Canadian communist. Fred Rose was deeply involved in atomic espionage.
A Death In Washington
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Author : Gary Kern
language : en
Publisher: Enigma Books
Release Date : 2008-09-10
A Death In Washington written by Gary Kern and has been published by Enigma Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-10 with History categories.
This is the first book to recover all original documents released by the British archives in 2002 and by the FBI, completing the author's ten-year study.
Stalin And His Hangmen
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Author : Donald Rayfield
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-03-31
Stalin And His Hangmen written by Donald Rayfield and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin was not the sole author of Stalinism. What motivated his chiefs of police, Feliks Dzierzynski, Viacheslav Manzhinsky, Genrikh Iagoda, Nikolai Ezhov and Lavrenti Beria? What did they want? What were their relations with the regime and its ruler? How did their upbringing and experience mould them? And how does the terror they create connect with the terror they felt? Stalin and His Hangmen reconstructs the psychological mechanism of a whole regime and what it held together. The extent of the misery caused by Stalin and his Hangmen can be compared in Europe only to that brought about by Hitler and his henchmen. But Stalin's heritage is, if possible, even worse than Hitler's. His rule enslaved three generations, not one, the horror of what he did has not yet been fully understood and his countrymen have not yet found the strenth to disavow him. All the more important, then, that this diabolical tale should be told.
Defectors
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Author : Erik R. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
Defectors written by Erik R. Scott and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.
Focusing on the borders of the Cold War, Defectors examines how the superpowers competed over those who took unauthorized flight from behind the Iron Curtain and how this movement of people in camps, border zones, around embassies, in international waters, and in the air helped create the current refugee system.
Stalin Mao Communism And Their 21st Century Aftermath In Russia And China
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Author : Miguel A. Faria, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-17
Stalin Mao Communism And Their 21st Century Aftermath In Russia And China written by Miguel A. Faria, Jr. and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-17 with History categories.
This book describes salient and momentous events, as well as gruesome episodes, in the history of communism under Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union and Mao Tse-tung in China, and narrates succinctly the historic major happenings that have taken place since that time up to the 21st century, such as hostilities, espionage, and actual confrontations—occurrences that have affected relations between those two nations vis-à-vis the West and the United States. The author corrects the historic record where it needs amending given new information that has come to light, and redresses political biases that have arisen and to which none of us are immune. This book serves as a sincere warning about the evils not only of the full-blown imposition of totalitarianism via revolution, but also of the implementation of socialism and authoritarianism via evolution, asserting that full economic and political freedom is always best.