KGB

The first and best authoritative history of the KGB, from its origins after the Russian Revolution, to the crumbling of the Soviet bloc in the Gorbachev era. With chapters on 'Stalin and Spy-mania', the Cambridge spy ring, the Cold War, the 'Decline and Fall of Detente' this also explores operations against Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, Bulgarian assassination squads and the disintegration of the Soviet bloc. Christopher Andrew is an academic and expert in the history of sec